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What a Lawyer Saw at Border Detention Centers
Brut America
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3/25/2025
No running water. Violently ill children. A premature baby wrapped in a filthy towel. Here are five alarming conditions witnessed by an immigration lawyer at a detention center on the southern border.
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50% of the people that I saw required immediate emergency medical attention.
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They were presenting with the symptoms you would associate with the flu, deeply congested,
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incredibly deep, rasping cough.
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One of these children had not had anything to eat or drink for two days.
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She was very, very ill.
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She had been throwing up, but she stopped throwing up when she stopped eating and drinking.
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She had, you know, diarrhea.
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We were able to get her to eat a little bit of applesauce, and shortly thereafter she
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began vomiting again.
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Four of the eight toddlers that I personally interviewed ended up being transferred to
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a medical facility or hospitalized.
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So 50% of the people that I saw required immediate emergency medical attention.
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There's no soap.
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There's no running water.
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There were rarely showers.
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There were no towels.
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There's no way to clean the babies or to clean themselves.
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We had the mother in the wheelchair with the premature baby.
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The mother was 16.
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It was the smallest baby I've ever seen outside of a hospital.
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She kept telling us she was a month old, and I just kept saying, there's no way this child
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is a month old.
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She was wrapped in the filthiest hand towel you've ever seen.
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Well we may have only seen 20 or we may have only seen 30, but that doesn't mean that there's
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only 20 or 30 ill children there.
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Just from a purely statistical point of view, if what we have randomly seen out of that
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small sampling is then extrapolated out over the greater population, it is going to be
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an incredibly widespread health crisis.
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The maximum for the border patrol facilities is 72 hours, and that's for adults.
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Children are never supposed to be detained for any length of time in these facilities.
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And we were seeing people, children, who had been there for weeks.
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It doesn't require additional funding to allow people to use the restrooms that are there
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and available.
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By not allowing access to the restrooms, that's just cruelty for cruelty's sake.
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It's not a budgetary issue.
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I just see these children who are so incredibly emotionally traumatized, physically weak and
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ill, and I just wonder what the future holds for them.
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Not necessarily where they end up geographically, but will they be reunited with their family?
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Are these scars that they will ever be able to overcome and have normal relationships
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with people?
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Or have we done so much damage to them?
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