A Teenager Had To Change A Little Girl's Diaper In The Facility Packed With Kids Separated From Parents At US Border

June 20, 2018 17:10

Author By Mambee

As the Border Patrol keeps tearing apart children from their parents, who cross the US border illegally, the kids find a way to care for each other as they can.

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Hundreds of kids are traumatized as they wait for an unknown future in large cages, metal doors and all, inside a adapted warehouse in South Texas.

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Michelle Brane, the director of immigrant rights at the Women's Refugee Commission, visited the facility and told Associated Press that the conditions those kids are kept in are totally inappropriate.

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There are no toys or books, and time outside is limited to just 2 hours a day. Needless to say, children of different ages, from toddlers to teenagers, are left to deal with it all on their own.

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Brane talked to a 16-year-old girl who said she had helped a little girl who needed a change of diapers. She had to teach others how to do it so that they could at least take care of each other.

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The 4-year-old was “so traumatized that she wasn’t talking,” she had been separated from her aunt and has experienced some considerable frustration.

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Later, the little one got reunited with her aunt, who happened to be caged in the different part of the facility.

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According to the immigration agents, people who crossed the border illegally will face criminal charges and be put in jail, away from their children.

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While never-ending protests turn into riots against the American “zero tolerance” policy against immigrants, the Border Patrol allowed reporters to take a brief look inside the facilities where the illegals are kept.

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The large facility turned out to be a dark and unfriendly place divided into separate wings, with cages for unaccompanied children, adults on their own, and parents with children.

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Trump’s policy has been recently put into practice, and small kids being torn away from their mothers’ arms has provoked a major dispraise and judgment. Social activists call it “inhumane” and plead for a more tolerant and kind-hearted approach to the situation.

Source: AP NEWS