An immigration official announced this past Friday that, in the 42 days between April 19 and May 31, approximately 2,000 immigrant children were removed from the care of their parents and taken into federal custody,
At the same time, 11,000 immigrant children are now in shelters, according to the Office of Refugee Resettlement. “Shelters,” however, appears to be a catch-all term for a wide variety of facilities that vary from small, generally child-friendly structures, to a converted Walmart with limited exposure to sunlight, to an old warehouse in South Texas, where hundreds of children wait in a series of temporary cages made of metal chain link fencing.
On Sunday, reporters and others were allowed inside the South Texas facility, which most people now call Ursula, for the street on which it is located, and what they described was not encouraging.
[For more of this story, written by Celeste Fremon, go to http://witnessla.com/separatin...of-childhood-trauma/]
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