The Carrizo Springs detention center in Texas that was opened in response to the squalid conditions in which children were being detained by the Border Patrol is closing as early as this week after less than a month being open. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) opened the…
Tag: Migrant Children
Migrant Children Create Drawings of Time in Detention Center at US Southern Border
A social worker obtained pictures drawn by three children, ages 10-11, at Catholic Charities Humanitarian Respite Center in McAllen, Texas after recently being released from Border Patrol custody. The pictures depicted chilling images of children locked in cages and under blankets without beds, guarded by people with guns. It is…
Trump Administration Wants Six Months or Longer to Find Thousands More Missing Migrant Children
By the time U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw issued an order on June 26, 2018 to halt family separations at the U.S.-Mexico border, more than 2,700 children had already been separated from their parents. While thousands have been reunited with their parents, on Thursday Sabraw had to order the federal…
Videos of Asylum-Seekers at U.S.-Mexico Border With Numbers Written on Their Arms Go Viral
In video footage that has gone viral, children waiting to cross into the U.S. from Mexico were seen having numbers written on their arms. The scene was reminiscent of Auschwitz, a concentration camp in Nazi Germany during World War II where Jews, Blacks, homosexuals, and other people were tattooed with…
Migrant Children Rounded Up, 'Discretely' Moved to a Tent City in West Texas During the Night
President Trump made the unconscionable decision to transport roughly 1,600 migrant children from various private foster homes and shelters around the country to a tent city in Tornillo, Texas. The transport took place in the dead of night to reportedly prevent the children from trying to flee. Fortune reported that…
'I Really Dont Care, Do U' The Words on Melania Trump's Jacket When Traveling to Visit Immigrant Children
First Lady Melania Trump made an unexpected trip to Texas to visit a immigrant children’s shelter and also managed a completely tone-deaf fashion fail in the process. The former fashion model wore a short trench coat with a message written on the back: ‘I Really Don’t Care, Do U’ a…