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Now we know where the babies and toddlers are.
https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2018/06/19/us/ap-us-immigration-toddlers-detained.html
There are three of them in Combs, Raymondville and Brownsville. A fourth is scheduled to open in Houston in a warehouse used to shelter hurricane victims. The mayor, Sylvester Turner, asked Southwest Key Programs to reconsider opening it. This is his personal line with these children.
This is unconscionable.
Trump administration officials have been sending babies and other young children forcibly separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border to at least three "tender age" shelters in South Texas, The Associated Press has learned.
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Doctors and lawyers who have visited the shelters said the facilities were fine, clean and safe, but the kids — who have no idea where their parents are — were hysterical, crying and acting out.
"The shelters aren't the problem, it's taking kids from their parents that's the problem," said South Texas pediatrician Marsha Griffin who has visited many.
Alicia Lieberman, who runs the Early Trauma Treatment Network at University of California, San Francisco, said decades of 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. "Their fear triggers a flood of stress hormones that disrupt neural circuits in the brain, create high levels of anxiety, make them more susceptible to physical and emotional illness, and damage their capacity to manage their emotions, trust people, and focus their attention on age-appropriate activities."
https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2018/06/19/us/ap-us-immigration-toddlers-detained.html
There are three of them in Combs, Raymondville and Brownsville. A fourth is scheduled to open in Houston in a warehouse used to shelter hurricane victims. The mayor, Sylvester Turner, asked Southwest Key Programs to reconsider opening it. This is his personal line with these children.
This is unconscionable.