This who thing is just gonna get worst ….
Immigrant children locked up at a Virginia center say they were beaten, left naked in cells and strapped to chairs by guards.
Around 30 unaccompanied minors are being held at the Shenandoah Valley Juvenile Center and have suffered from an abusive atmosphere, according to a federal court case filed on behalf of an unidentified undocumented 17-year-old boy from Mexico.
The boy spent time at a San Antonio center and in New York’s Mercy First Residential Treatment Center after being taken into custody at the border before being transferred to Virginia for alleged violent behavior.
What he allegedly found there were prison-like conditions with cells, no privacy from guards to use the bathroom, one hour of recreation time per day, racist taunts such as being called a “Mexican monkey,” physical hitting as well as harsh punishments.
“Several immigrant detainees have reported being stripped of their clothes, occasionally including their underwear,” the Virginia suit says, adding that the plaintiff was punished by being tied to a chair for hours and other children put in restraints for long periods of time.
One 15-year-old Honduran boy joining the suit said that he had been slammed against the ground and the wall after an argument over holding a door open, another 15-year-old said he was restrained to a chair with a bag over his head.
Children at the center who say they have been abused are as young as 14 years old….
The First Lady travel’s to the Mexican/US border….
Trump does a rambling presser….
Repeating he’s ‘tough’….
He disses Democrats and Mexico….
Update
Virginia governor orders state officials to investigate claims made by immigrant teens of severe physical abuse at a juvenile detention facility.
Politico
Via twitter
California regulators said today that they will immediately begin inspections at facilities where scores of children separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border under a Trump administration crackdown are being held.
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Senator Elizabeth Warren calls Texas immigration center ‘a disturbing picture’
Senator Elizabeth Warren appeared visibly shaken after visiting an immigration processing facility in McAllen, Texas, on Sunday, calling the tour “a disturbing picture.”
“There are children by themselves. I saw a six-month-old baby, little girls, little boys. There are mothers with their babies and with small children,” Warren said in an interview recorded by CNN. “And they’re all on the concrete floors in cages.”
At some points during her remarks, Warren’s voice seemed to crack as she expressed her frustrations about how people were treated inside the facility.
“That’s not what our country stands for. We are people who believe in the worth of every human being,” she said when asked about a tweet President Trump sent in which he called for immediately deporting anyone who crosses into the United States illegally without trial. “When a woman comes here with her 4-year-old son, and says, ‘I am asking for amnesty, I have been threatened by gangs in my home country,’ we should at least give her a hearing. That is the least that is required of us as a country and as human beings.”
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