Migrant Children Held by the Obama Administration Still Suffering 5 Years Later [usatoday.com]

Rafael Maravilla(PACEs Connection Staff) 9/25/194:00 AM

By Daniel Gonzalez, USA Today, September 24, 2019

He spent a month sleeping on the floor. The room was freezing cold. His back hurt for two years. The bad cough lasted longer.

Pedro Chilel Ramirez was 17 when he was picked up by the Border Patrol.

He arrived in the wave of migrant children that flooded the border in 2014, but his experience may track closely with what thousands of migrant children encountered this year, and it illustrates the long-lasting effects that their time in Border Patrol custody may have on their lives.

Lawsuits have alleged children held by the Border Patrol are deprived of their rights and treated inhumanely. An inspector general's report concluded that some migrant children would suffer mental trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder.

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