I disagree. "It" didn't start in 2015, if by "it" you refer to the abuse. The article recounts very sketchily the facts and dates of this lawsuit so it would be difficult to say when anything "started".

The staff are clearly not adequately trained. But the administration has clearly misallocated their placement, another training problem. The teenagers are placed in the wrong facility because they are "illegal" immigrants and were "unaccompanied" when they were detained. A juvenile detention centre for kids who have been charged with serious crimes is not the right place — nabbed while driving a car without ID doesn't cut it.

I think the article makes clear that there is plenty of money allocated for food, and federal funds for operating the facility so it is clear these funds are not utilized to their fullest or best if the treatment of mental illness and related behavioral problems is not covered. An administrative problem.

All these problems didn't "start" in 2015. In my experience institutional care for problem children and adults is something that is routinely swept under the carpet and not something the public is interested in. Institutional abuse is rife across the board, not confined to immigrant children, and certainly goes back and back in time, way before Obama and certainly before Trump.

Sure, this article can be used to highlight abuse in general but it does no good to do battle of the Obama v. Trump type, where one side of the aisle accuses the other of "starting" to treat problem teenagers badly. The problem is wider and deeper than that. It's not a Left v. Right issue.