2/ I am the acting Deputy Washington Director & Senior Researcher on Immigration in the US Program at @hrw.https://www.hrw.org/about/people/clara-long …
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3/ I joined
@hrw 5 & 1/2 yrs ago & have researched & authored a series of in-depth reports on issues such as mistreatment & dismissal of asylum seekers at the US border, the detention & separation of families, & returns of Central American & other asylum seekers to Mexico.Näytä tämä ketju -
4/ In mid-June, I along with my colleagues
@hrw colleagues@NicoleAustinHil &@MichaelBochenek were part of a team of lawyers and doctors that monitored conditions in border facilities, including in#Clint, TX. What we saw was awful.https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/06/24/we-went-us-border-detention-center-children-what-we-saw-was-awful …Näytä tämä ketju -
5/ The conditions we saw are consistent with
@hrw’s prior findings on the harms children face in Border Patrol detention documented in our February 2018 report, “In the Freezer,” with impacts now accruing over weeks instead of days. https://www.hrw.org/report/2018/02/28/freezer/abusive-conditions-women-and-children-us-immigration-holding-cells …Näytä tämä ketju -
6/ On day one at
#Clint, I spoke with an 11-yr-old boy caring for his 3-yr-old brother, who said “I am the one who takes care of him here. There was a teenage girl who was helping me take care of him for a while. But she’s gone now. Now, no one helps me to take care of him.”Näytä tämä ketju -
7/ An 11-year-old boy detained with his 9-year-old brother & 7-year-old sister told us, “Nobody takes care of us here. Some kids are only 2 or 3-years-old & they have no one to take care of them.” https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/06/20/children-risk-us-border-jails …
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8/ Children at
#Clint were visibly dirty, mucous or mud-stained, & nearly all wearing the same clothes they wore when they crossed the border. They told us they were not given soap or toothbrushes & were given access to showers only 1x or 2x in a period of weeks.Näytä tämä ketju -
9/ Sick children were quarantined alone. An 11-year-old boy held in CBP custody for 12 days, despite having parents in New Jersey, said: “About three days ago I got a fever. They moved me alone to a flu cell. There is no one to take care of you there.”
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10/ "Sometimes when we ask, we are told we will be here for months," said one 14-year-old girl who said she had been at Clint for three weeks. US law prohibits holding children in Border Patrol custody for more than 72 hours in typical circumstances.
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11/
@hrw has also documented family separation in the context of the implementation of the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP). Under MPP, Border Patrol agents split apart families who had been traveling together at the border. https://www.hrw.org/report/2019/07/02/we-cant-help-you-here/us-returns-asylum-seekers-mexico …Näytä tämä ketju -
12/ Congress should exercise strenuous oversight to ensure the safety & well-being of children in federal immigration custody. Children should be allowed to remain with their family members & be promptly released with appropriate safeguards to ensure they appear for proceedings.
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17/ 5.) Congress should prohibit
#CBP from separating children from parents & extended family members such as grandmothers, aunts, & older siblings – people who are in many cases their caregivers – if the separation is not in the child’s best interest.Näytä tämä ketju -
18/ 6.) Congress should fund community-based alternatives to detention for children who cannot quickly be placed with family members such as foster care arrangements & small, state-licensed group homes for teens, with appropriate supervision by social workers.
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19/ 7.)
#CBP should develop an access policy for independent oversight & allow attorneys access to migrants in its custody.Näytä tämä ketju -
20 [end]/ Ultimately, Congress should write child rights protections into law and provide proper oversight. I thank the
@OversightDems for taking an important step towards addressing the inhumane separation and treatment of immigrant children at the#southernborder.Näytä tämä ketju
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