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Detained migrants describe being deprived of food, water and sleep in lawsuit
The Hill ^ | 07/19/18 | Jacqueline Thomsen

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.


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: belongsintrash; commiepropaganda; fakenews; illegalaliens; illegalimmigration; lies; propaganda; stayhome; theshill
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To: yesthatjallen

Really do not care. They should stay home and not come here to whine about the accommodations.


41 posted on 07/19/2018 8:42:36 PM PDT by madison10 (Pray for Brett Kavanaugh and President Trump)
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To: yesthatjallen
"The only food we were given were sandwiches"

When I was detained waiting on a manifest bond I had to buy my own food. Should've brought a sack lunch.

42 posted on 07/19/2018 8:48:19 PM PDT by the_daug
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To: yesthatjallen

They didn’t have any food. That’s why they gained 10 pounds.


43 posted on 07/19/2018 8:48:56 PM PDT by libertylover (I'm not arguing with you; I'm just explaining why I'm right and you're wrong.)
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To: yesthatjallen

The world weeps. Give them a PBJ and a roll of toilet paper. Done.


44 posted on 07/19/2018 8:52:05 PM PDT by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: yesthatjallen

“..that she wasn’t allowed to feed her 2-year-old daughter formula” Because it was needed for those who can’t yet drink regular milk.


45 posted on 07/19/2018 8:53:47 PM PDT by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Yep, they’re Dem voters, coming for the free crap and whining when it’s not what they wanted. Go home. And don’t come back. Deport the freeloaders NOW!!


46 posted on 07/19/2018 10:06:01 PM PDT by bluejean (I'm becoming a cranky old person. It really annoys me.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Americans are beginning to resent the daily woe-is-me tales of freeloaders lining up attempting to try to cash in on an immigration-lottery so some pro-bono lawyer lines their pockets with 30% of the settlement.

So I don’t believe a word. It might not be food that they are used to, but we aren’t handing out bad food, or water. Everyone receives 3 meals and 2 snacks a day. The centers are kept chilled because as most intelligent people know, germs thrive in warm places which is why hospitals and doctors’ offices are cold. There is no way these children went without bathing or without clean clothes or were allowed to become infested with lice. But they do come in dirty, and infested with everything from scabies to smallpox and TB. There was one complaint that a boy who refused a shower on the first day had to wait 2 days for his turn to shower again. Well sorry, but 100 others are in front of him. Did these children have 3 meals, two snacks, clean clothes and daily showers back home? If they did, why are they here? America has been expected to provide food, shelter and remedial education to thousands of people each week, and find a place to house them, regardless of the numbers invading. And we have done a great job. Sorry if we don’t meet their nose-in-the-air expectations.

Not to mention that those deported and interviewed in their home country never, ever, ever tell reporters there that they left for amnesty because of violence or oppression - that tall tale changes to one of leaving for economic opportunity reasons.

Close the border and stop this nonsense.


47 posted on 07/19/2018 10:56:14 PM PDT by blueplum ( "...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
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To: yesthatjallen

She crossed that border, breaking our laws... but wants to be fed and housed to her standards... and sues to see what more she can get. How about just going back to where they came from.. Complaining already, is unbecoming. Suing means she knows how to milk the system or being coached to milk the system.. if she succeeds, it will become another way to make lawbreaking profitable.


48 posted on 07/20/2018 1:14:34 AM PDT by frnewsjunkie
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To: yesthatjallen

What kind of food would I get if I broke into El Salvador?


49 posted on 07/20/2018 1:29:05 AM PDT by jospehm20
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“The only food we were given were sandwiches that were frozen and not able to be eaten,” the El-Salvador citizen said.

OMFG - You were detained in Texas in the middle of a heat wave and couldn't figure out how to eat a frozen sandwich? We don't want people that stupid in this country anyway.

50 posted on 07/20/2018 3:31:19 AM PDT by Hardastarboard (Three most annoying words on the internet - "Watch the Video")
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To: Tammy8
My cousin works at Imperial in Ca.. I sent this to her and she replied it's mostly BS. Bottled water is always available, meals are served on a regular 3 time a day basis, and they are allowed to take extras like fruit and such for snacks later.

She said the person in chains was likely somebody who had criminal charges/ or conviction, and they are required to keep them restrained when ever they are outside of a controlled enclosure.

51 posted on 07/20/2018 4:10:10 AM PDT by SirFishalot
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To: jospehm20

“What kind of food would I get if I broke into El Salvador?”

Prolly fried plantanes once a day {barf}


52 posted on 07/20/2018 6:35:00 AM PDT by dsrtsage (For Leftists, World History starts every day at breakfast)
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To: jospehm20
What kind of food would I get if I broke into El Salvador?

In some sectors of Central and S. America, you would be the food.

53 posted on 07/20/2018 6:38:49 AM PDT by BlackbirdSST (Apparently I voted demoncrat for 40 years. They all wore 'R' jerseys! 'R'atpublicans!)
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To: SirFishalot

Oh I know, yes they don’t put nice people in chains for sure.

They are fed decent food, though they rarely like it because it is not what they are used to. When a very large group arrives at once of course things are off kilter for a bit, but the illegals and their handlers do that on purpose because it used to increase the odds they would be turned loose.

They are always fed, always given potable or bottled water, they can sleep, ETC. This is nonsense they are told to say these things to gain sympathy. When there was a big wave “unaccompanied minors” during O administration the Nogales facility was bashed for serving cold burritos, they were hot but by the time everyone was served they were no longer hot. Not a 5 star restaurant, but some review it as if it is. No sympathy from me...they should have stayed home.


54 posted on 07/20/2018 8:25:25 AM PDT by Tammy8
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To: yesthatjallen

“Sleep deprived” is probably lawyer-speak for someone waking them up in the morning...


55 posted on 07/20/2018 9:02:24 AM PDT by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building.)
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