Thread by @reveal

1/ A new government report says that migrant adults and children are being held for days and sometimes weeks in overcrowded cells at the border.

It fits into a long pattern of horrific, government-sponsored abuse of migrants.

What we’ve exclusively reported so far …

2/ The government takes children’s x-rays and sends them to a dentist in an effort to reclassify the children as adults and place them in adult detention: revealnews.org/blog/heres-how…

3/ Migrant children held at the Shiloh Treatment Center in Texas were being forcibly injected with psychotropic drugs without their parents’ consent. revealnews.org/episodes/rippe…

4/ The doctor prescribing these drugs had been practicing for more than a decade without a board certification to treat children. revealnews.org/blog/exclusive…

5/ Taxpayers paid more than $1.5 billion over four years to private companies operating immigrant youth shelters accused of serious lapses in care, including neglect and sexual and physical abuse. revealnews.org/article/migran…

6/ The government sent millions of dollars to Shiloh Treatment Center for years, despite clear evidence of abuse and neglect. revealnews.org/article/federa…

7/ A major U.S. defense contractor quietly detained dozens of immigrant children inside a vacant Phoenix office building with dark windows, no kitchen and only a few toilets. revealnews.org/article/defens…

8/ Officials called for the closure of that facility just days after our initial report landed. revealnews.org/blog/after-rev…

And the contractor ended its lease. revealnews.org/blog/defense-c…

9/ Meanwhile, the federal government is relying on secret shelters to hold unaccompanied minors, in possible violation of the long-standing rules for the care of immigrant children. revealnews.org/article/us-gov…

10/ The government also is failing to reunite migrant kids with their legal guardians, thanks to a technicality. revealnews.org/article/govern…

11/ Our immigration reporters – @aurabogado, @patrickmichels and @lauracmorel – are breaking new stories all the time.

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