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[quote=Anonymous]I don't care what your opinion is about a wall or rounding up illegal immigrants en masse and deporting them. This story from the AP is horrific and if you aren't upset by it you really have to check your pulse.

You don't treat human beings, especially vulnerable children, like this. And I don't care if they shouldn't have been presenting themselves at the border in the first place. You don't treat human beings like this. Especially not vulnerable children. I don't care if their parents are at fault for not keeping them in their home country. You con't treat anyone like this.

This situation is a stain on America. It needs to be fixed immediately.

https://apnews.com/a074f375e643408cb9b8d1a5fc5acf6a

[quote]A traumatic and dangerous situation is unfolding for some 250 infants, children and teens locked up for up to 27 days without adequate food, water and sanitation, according to a legal team that interviewed dozens of children at a Border Patrol station in Texas.

The attorneys who recently visited the facility near El Paso told The Associated Press that [b]three girls, ages 10 to 15, said they had been taking turns watching over a sick 2-year-old boy because there was no one else to look after him.

When the lawyers saw the boy, he wasn’t wearing a diaper and had wet his pants, and his shirt was smeared in mucus. [/b]They said at least 15 children at the facility had the flu, and some were kept in medical quarantine.

The children told lawyers that they were fed uncooked frozen food or rice and had gone weeks without bathing or a clean change of clothes at the facility in Clint, in the desert scrubland some 25 miles southeast of El Paso.

“In my 22 years of doing visits with children in detention I have never heard of this level of inhumanity,” said Holly Cooper, an attorney who represents detained youth. “Seeing our country at this crucible moment where we have forsaken children and failed to see them as human is hopefully a wake up for this country to move toward change.”[/quote][/quote]

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