These camps aee for profit and depending on the facility the operaters are receiving $300-$700 per child per day. That is a lot of profit seeing they are not providing any services or even food and water in some cases. Some kids are being fed food that is still frozen. Some rice.
Four Severely Ill Migrant Toddlers Hospitalized After Lawyers Visit Border Patrol Facility: unresponsive, feverish and vomiting, yet receiving no medical care.
One 2-year-old’s eyes were rolled back in her head, she was “completely unresponsive” and limp.
Another mother at the same facility had a premature baby, who was “listless” and wrapped in a dirty towel, as HuffPost previously reported.
The lawyers feared that if they had not shown up at the facility, the sick kids would have received zero medical attention and potentially died. The Trump administration has come under fire for its treatment ― and its alleged neglect ― of migrants who have been crossing the southern border in record numbers. The result is overcrowded facilities, slow medical care and in some instances, deaths.
Gialluca met one 16-year-old mother whose 8-month-old baby was sick with the flu and forced to sleep outside for four days at the McAllen Border Patrol station. The mother said the guards took the clothing off the baby’s back, leaving her in a diaper, and forced them to sleep on concrete without a blanket.
A sick 2-year-old girl was shivering in a T-shirt and had shallow breathing, according to Mike Fassio, a Seattle-based immigration attorney who visited Ursula.
“I was very, very concerned,” he said, adding lawyers spoke with immigrants in a room outside of the facility. “When she left us, I knew she was going back to a place that was cold, crowded and unsanitary.” Fassio noted that guards referred to the children as “bodies.”
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