Babies and young children have been forcibly separated from their parents at the US-Mexico border
News24xx.com - The photos of babies and young children who have been forcibly separated from their parents at the US-Mexico border are being sent to at least three camps in South Texas has emerged. The three camps center in Combes, Raymondville and Brownsville – have been rapidly repurposed to serve needs of children including some children under 5 years old. Another place planned for Houston, would house up to 240 children in a warehouse previously used for people displaced by Hurricane Harvey.
The photos was emerged after medical providers and lawyers have visited the Rio Grande Valley shelters described a play room that filled with crying preschool-age children.
And another shocking pictures show how the children are made to walk around the camps and live in one of the dozens of basic shelters while they wait to be placed in foster homes.
More than 2,300 children have been taken from their parents at the US-Mexico border since the White House announced its zero tolerance policy in early May.
The government has been heavily criticised over images of some of the children in cages inside US Border Patrol processing stations. The new institutions, dubbed ‘tender-age’ shelters for children under 12 years old.
By law, child migrants must be sent to facilities run by the US Department of Health and Human Services within three days of being detained. Then, the agency must responsible for placing the children in shelters or foster homes until they are united with a relative or sponsor in the community as they await immigration court hearings.
The United Nations and some Democratic and Republican lawmakers and religious groups have sharply criticized the policy, calling it inhumane. But Steven Wagner, an official with the Department of Health and Human Services, doesn’t think so.
He said that the camps have specialized facilities that are devoted to providing care to children with special needs too. Doctors and lawyers who have visited the shelters said the facilities were fine, clean and safe.
Alicia Lieberman, who runs the Early Trauma Treatment Network at University of California, San Francisco, said a study show early separations can cause permanent emotional damage.
"Children are biologically programmed to grow best in the care of a parent figure. When that bond is broken through long and unexpected separations with no set timeline for reunion, children respond at the deepest physiological and emotional levels," she said.
Federal officials said Tuesday that since May, they have separated 2,342 children from their families.
On Tuesday, a Guatemalan mother who hasn’t seen her 7-year-old son since he was taken from her a month ago sued the Trump administration.
Beata Mariana de Jesus Mejia-Mejia was released from custody while her asylum case is pending and thinks her son, Darwin, might be in a shelter in Arizona.
"I only got to talk to him once and he sounded so sad. My son never used to sound like that, he was such a dynamic boy,” Mejia-Mejia said as she wept.
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