Andrew KimmelVerified account

Many children are reporting that they sleep on a concrete floor. They are given rough wool army blankets. The lucky kids receive two blankets, one for the floor and one for their body to stay warm inside the air conditioned facility. Some children report only getting one blanket.

There is a lice infestation & flu outbreak at the facility. Those suffering with either are put into isolation rooms w/ other sick kids... no adults. A child-mother & her baby were put into this room, until guards took her baby out & gave it to an unrelated child to care for.

One report stands out. A lice outbreak occurred in a cell of ~25 kids, where 6 kids were found to have lice. Guards provided them w/ 2 (!) combs & lice shampoo. One of the combs went missing & @CBP agents got so mad they took away their blankets/mats as punishment.

Nearly every child interviewed has a parent/relative in the United States & were coming to this country to be w/ them. Almost all came with an adult family member and were separated at the border by @CBP. The children were with parents/grandparents/aunts, etc and taken from them.

There is another report of a guard who made a 17-year-old immigrant the unofficial guard inside their room to keep the rest of the kids in line. Guards reward the older boy w/ extra food. A 7-year-old asked if he could help for extra food too & was chastised by the older boy...

An older sibling of the 7-year-old stood up for his little brother and both siblings were reprimanded by the guards. The lawyer who told this account likened it to what occurred in concentration camps with guards manipulating prisoners.

When asked if there is anything illegal going on inside the facility, a lawyer said: "...laws were being broken left and right... children are supposed to be treated a certain way when they are in government custody...and those very basic standards are being violated."

"There is nothing sanitary about the conditions they are in. And they are not safe, because they are getting sick, and they are not being adequately supervised by @CBP officers. This is a violation of the case law."