Child Prisoners

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Is POTUS treating migrant children like prisoners? Can this action be considered a form of cruel and unusual punishment?

Three dozen migrant children were left for as long as 39 hours in a van in Texas last summer during a bureaucratic snafu at the end of the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” practices. ‪Botched reunifications left migrant children waiting in vans overnight https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/botched-family-reunificati…

Meanwhile, at the detention center in Homestead, Florida, eyewitnesses say that migrant children are being held like prisoners to the point where some are cutting themselves in despair. ‪No hugs, kids cutting themselves: Court gets unprecedented peek inside Homestead shelter https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article231075518.html

200 allegations of abuse; only one Department of Homeland Security employee disciplined ‪Over 200 Allegations of Abuse of Migrant Children; 1 Case of Homeland Security Disciplining Someone https://www.propublica.org/article/over-200-allegations-of-abuse-of-mig…

POTUS may not wish to allow the real truth get in the way. The proven fact that undocumented immigrants are overwhelmingly law-abiding citizens, but that will have no effect on the president or his administration’s border policies. The true facts are that there is still no link between the undocumented and crime https://www.themarshallproject.org/2019/05/13/is-there-a-connection-bet…

‪Doctor who treats newly-released migrants says border officials have been snatching kids' medicine https://www.dailykos.com/story/2019/6/5/1862846/-Doctor-who-works-with-…