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To: Brumar89 who wrote (1143570)	6/21/2019 1:54:15 PM
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As @clarychka notes, these kids are only supposed to be held in these camps for processing—a matter of hours, a day or two at most. The ones she saw have been languishing there, largely unsupervised, for weeks. Angus Johnston?Verified account @studentactivism Many of these kids have parents or other family in the US. They could be released into the homes of people who love them, and in the past they would have been. The Trump administration is choosing to imprison them, covered in their own filth, instead. "Based on our interviews, officials seem to be making no effort to release children to caregivers—and many have parents in the US—rather than holding them for weeks in overcrowded cells sleeping on concrete floors." Again: These kids have parents who love them. In many cases, the government knows who and where those parents are. Instead of reuniting the families, the government is holding the kids hostage, in most cases refusing to allow them any contact with their loved ones, even by phone. "Children at Clint told us they don’t have regular access to showers or clean clothes, with some saying they hadn’t been allowed to bathe over periods of weeks and don’t have regular access to soap." "Many of the kids in the Clint facility are too young to wash or feed themselves, yet they are left to fend for themselves with the help of unrelated older children." "Dr. Ewen Wang, a pediatric emergency physician at Stanford who formed part of our team, told me if a child came into her emergency room and reported this kind of treatment, she would be obligated to report it as child neglect." Conservatives have been all over my mentions since last night saying this is a funding problem. No. This is policy. This is the Trump administration choosing to imprison kids whose parents are desperate to have them back. Choosing to subject them to squalor and disease. These kids have families. These kids have people who love them waiting for them, with beds and soap and warm baths and clean clothes and good nourishing food. It would cost our government nothing to let them have all that. Our government is choosing to torture them.