New insight into Texas family detention reveals adults fighting kids for clean water

[highplainsdem]

Source: AP

McALLEN, Texas (AP) — Adults fighting kids for clean water, despondent toddlers and a child with swollen feet denied a medical exam — these first-hand accounts from immigrant families at detention centers included in a motion filed by advocates Friday night are offering a glimpse of conditions at Texas facilities.

Families shared their testimonies with immigrant advocates filing a lawsuit to prevent the Trump administration from terminating the Flores Settlement Agreement, a ‘90s-era policy that requires immigrant children detained in federal custody be held in safe and sanitary conditions.

The agreement could challenge President Donald Trump’s family detention provisions in his “big, beautiful” bill of tax breaks and spending cuts, which also seeks to make the detention time indefinite and comes as the administration ramps up arrests.

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One mother was told she would have to use tap water for formula for her 9-month-old, who had diarrhea for three days after, and a 16-year-old girl described people scrambling over each other for water.

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Read more: https://apnews.com/article/migrants-child-supervision-texas-e4994b2b6786717ea79a4be230e476bf

[SheltieLover]

1. Surreal

[highplainsdem]

2. I want to see everyone in the Trump regime responsible for this prosecuted. And I'd say that they

deserve to be held under similar conditions, but what they're doing is cruel and unusual punishment - and child abuse when children are involved.

[SheltieLover]

4. I couldn't agree more

[UpInArms]

3. Call them what the are

Concentration Camps

[SheltieLover]

5. Exactly!

[Bayard]

6. Surprise inspections from members of Congress are in order

These unconscionable situations are being done in our name.

[Passages]

7. Criminal.