Posted on 07/19/2018 7:43:19 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Immigrant parents and children alleged in interviews filed in federal court this week that they faced mistreatment while being held in U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) facilities, saying they were often deprived of food, water and sleep.
In the interviews, which included some redactions and were filed as part of a lawsuit against the government's detention of minors, the immigrants described not being allowed to shower for days and being given rotten food and dirty drinking water.
One woman described as Lidia, 22, said during her interview that she and her 4-year-old son “went hungry the entire time” they were detained in McAllen, Texas.
“The only food we were given were sandwiches that were frozen and not able to be eaten,” the El-Salvador citizen said.
Sergio, 17, said that he and his father were separated after they arrived at the border from their home country of Guatemala. He said his father is now facing deportation.
“I do not want to be here anymore, especially since I know how much my father is suffering. The way I have been treated makes me feel like I don’t matter, like I am trash,” Sergio said.
A 10-year-old girl from Honduras, Dixiana, said through a translator that she was given a frozen ham sandwich but that “the ham was black," adding that she “took one bite but did not eat the rest."
Mayra, 29, said during her interview that her 9-year-old son is “badly traumatized” after being held in a detention center. She said her son began wetting the bed and that she wasn’t allowed to feed her 2-year-old daughter formula.
“He saw someone bound with chains and asked me whether I would be chained in the same way…He wonders when we will get to the United States. I do not tell him that we are already here. He wouldn’t believe that the United States would treat us this way,” Mayra said in the interview.
The statements were taken during June and July of this year. Attorneys for the Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law, which represents the immigrants in the case, allege that the interviews prove the government is violating the Flores settlement.
The settlement, established in 1997, blocks the federal government from detaining immigrant children for more than 20 days and dictates the treatment of the children.
CPB spokesperson Daniel Hetlage told BuzzFeed News that the agency doesn’t comment on pending litigation.
“However, lack of comment should not be construed as agreement or stipulation with any of the allegations. CBP takes all allegations seriously, and investigates all formal complaints,” he said.
womp womp
Message to these people: America did not invite you. Go home.
Yep, things are bad in the United States.
Go home where life is better.
Surely the adults have heard of thawing; it doesn’t take that long outside of a refrigerator. Dirty drinking water? That one seems highly unlikely unless there was a problem with the pipes and that would be dealt with quickly.
Why haven’t we heard any of this before? It’s as if the previous furor has died down so now they need to create a new furor.
Sheeeyit. My father and I were separated when I was 17, too. I came home drunk one night and he told me if I want to live like that to get my own place. The next day I moved out.
A couple of years later I moved back home dead broke and he welcomed me with open arms.
I am getting sick of hearing about these people breaking into our country.
EXPEL THEM!
if you don’t like the accomodations of being here illegally, just go home and stop trying to come back illegally.
Please send the message back - the U.S. is a horrible, horrible place & not to bother coming!
Must made’em feel right at home...
...well, without the beheadings, child rapes and cartel happenings.
We make them feel at home and they whine.
It is the same furor just “Aren’t We Pitiful, part 2.
Get them out of here!! What are the doing here? They can drink all they want in Mexico, GET THE HELL OUT!!
how much food and water did the coyote give them?
Give them a box lunch, take them to the border, and tell them “Go home.”
They were not treated in the manner for which they came here to become accustomed to.
The quality and quantity of the free food, care, housing, medical, clothing and facilities did not meet their expectation.
They didn’t even have any Grey Poupon.
They’re going to make great welfare dependents.
I worked for many years in a CBP facility. The illegals in recent years (guided by ??) have been massing at the border at times to deliberately swamp the system. When dealing with normal numbers the system works great- but when overwhelming numbers arrive all at once it does become difficult to deal with them.
I do not believe they were fed spoiled food, they may have had to deal with frozen food- that is how it is kept and if a lot of people had to be fed at once, well you have to do what you have to do. How about they let it thaw and then eat it? That is what I would have done, better than going hungry. I have never seen water given out other than bottled water or drinking fountains that are open to all, so am pretty sure it was not bad water.
I do think their sleep is likely interrupted, because of suicide attempts and what not they have to be checked on every few minutes. I am sure they slept better there than in the desert during their journey to this country.
Overwhelming the system is something illegals and their supporters do on purpose, so any uncomfortable consequences of their actions should not be on this country. I for one will in no way apologize. They should have stayed in their country.
Well, bye.
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