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The conditions I saw today at the border are heartbreaking and enraging. Sick toddlers without beds to sleep on. Muddy kids without access to showers. Facilities without toothbrushes or toothpaste.
These border facilities are under-resourced, but the suffering inflicted isn’t accidental. It’s part of the Trump administration’s depraved deterrence agenda, to make conditions so miserable that migrants won’t make the journey in the first place.
The children and families in these facilities are suffering irreparable trauma. As the wealthiest nation on earth, we should not be packing people into what are essentially prison camps. We need to get these vulnerable people out of these camps NOW.
