Detained Children
The temporary shelter violates child welfare standards, according to advocates who recently toured the facility.
The acting attorney general appeared stunned as the congresswoman grilled him on the “zero humanity” border policy and how it hurt children.
On Friday, immigrant advocacy groups filed a lawsuit on behalf of at least 10,000 detained immigrant children and their sponsors.
St. Susanna’s Rev. Steve Josoma said the Massachusetts church's Nativity display puts a “mirror image of the world into the stable.”
WHAT'S HAPPENING
The government plans to withdraw from a settlement that protects immigrant children from inhumane detention.
Some 322 of the 497 children still in custody have parents who were deported, making it more difficult to reunite them.
“What is happening here,” said a nun volunteering with me, “makes me question the existence of God.”
The number of kids who have been reunited in the last couple of weeks can be counted on two hands, according to court filings on the immigration detentions.
"It’s clearly an inhumane policy to maintain kids in these kinds of shelters,” one state lawmaker said.
Nearly 600 immigrant children have yet to be reunited with their parents, many of whom have been deported.