Detained Children
The Trump administration suggested the onus was on the ACLU to locate parents that officials had separated from their children at the border.
The silver-haired activists will embark a six-day, 2,000-mile tour ending in McAllen, Texas.
The allegations are the latest linked to Southwest Key’s immigrant detention facilities, which are funded by the federal government.
The government said it had reunified more than 1,440 kids with their parents — but hundreds remain in shelters.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
The Trump administration has until Thursday to meet a court-imposed deadline to reunite separated families.
The senders hope it brings a small measure of comfort.
In less than a month, the group has raised $260,000 and has reunited six moms with 12 children.
In a new court filing, migrant children and their parents describe being forced to "strip naked," hunger and physical assault.
The government still hasn't given children back to parents it already deported.
It's the first time a large group of lawyers and child experts have been allowed inside Casa Padre, America's largest migrant children's shelter.