Children Report Abuse In Detention Centers

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

Chained, forcibly drugged, detained in secret shelters and full of bedbugs and lice, this is how hundreds of children currently live in various detention centers across the United States. This is confirmed by multiple sources, including Bill De Blasio, Mayor of New York and CNN.

The humanitarian crisis unleashed in mid-May when the mass arrests of migrants and their children began separating them when crossing the border has uncovered a veritable sewer, revealing the multiple abuses in which these young migrants live in the most powerful nation in the world.

At a press conference, De Blasio said he was surprised by the news that many of the children detained at the border have been sent to his state, so far from the border line. "How is it possible that none of us knew that there were 239 children right here and now, in our city?" He asked.

De Blasio revealed that many of the children have lice, bedbugs, and smallpox. "Simply their mental health, they assure us, is very, very painful," he stressed.

For its part, the CNN network revealed reports of dozens of people who say that migrant children who are separated from their parents or arrested independently have long been subjected - before the president's "zero tolerance" policy came into force. Donald Trump - in inhumane conditions.

Lawyers who work closely with young migrants say that many of them are sent to secret shelters, suffer abandonment, attacks and "horrifying" abuse.

Many of them have been chained up, kept in non-air-conditioned rooms - especially in Texas, where the heat can rise dangerously high in the summer - and psychotropic drugs disguised as vitamin jelly beans have been forcibly given to them.

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In one of these centers, sources say, the children received forced injections of medicinal cocktails with sedatives.

Shenandoah Valley Juvenile Center, in Virginia, is one of the centers where multiple abuses are reported. Faced with the allegations, the state governor, Ralph Northam, announced a thorough investigation.

The crisis unleashed since May has separated more than 2,100 children, who have been scattered across the country. According to the Office of Refugee Relocation, there are currently 11,800 children housed in more than 100 shelters and detention centers in 17 states. Many of these centers are full to capacity and the government is looking for options to accommodate them.

This Thursday the intention of the Trump government to condition military bases to hold migrant families there was announced, which according to a decree signed by the 72-year-old billionaire, will no longer be separated.