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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,835 posts)
Wed Jul 3, 2019, 07:05 PM Jul 2019

What a Pediatrician Saw Inside a Border Patrol Warehouse

MCALLEN, Texas—Inside the Border Patrol warehouse on Ursula Avenue, Dolly Lucio Sevier saw a baby who’d been fed from the same unwashed bottle for days; children showing signs of malnutrition and dehydration; and several kids who, in her medical opinion, were exhibiting clear evidence of psychological trauma.

More than 1,000 migrant children sat in the detention facility here, and Sevier, a local pediatrician, had been examining as many as she could, one at a time. But she wasn’t permitted to enter the area where they were being held, many of them in cages, and find the sickest kids to examine. Instead, in a nearby room, she manually reviewed a 50-page printout of that day’s detainees, and highlighted the names of children with a 2019 birth date—the babies—before moving on to the toddlers.

When it was almost time to leave, Sevier asked to see a 3-year-old girl, and then two other children. But by that point, the friendly and accommodating Border Patrol agent assisting her earlier in the day had been replaced by a dour guard, wearing a surgical mask, who claimed that he couldn’t find the toddler. “We can wait,” Sevier said, as she recalled to me in an interview. Her tone was polite but firm; she knew that she had the right under a federal court settlement to examine whomever she liked.

“She’s having a bath,” Sevier recalled the guard as saying, a luxury one official told her is available only to babies removed from their guardians. In the facility’s standard cages, there is no soap or showering for the kids. Though 72 hours is the longest a minor can be legally confined in such a facility, some had been there almost a month. Sevier waited.

Finally, the guard returned with news. He had found the girls after all. “We located the bodies,” he said, in paramilitary slang. “I’ll bring them right in.”

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/health-news/what-a-pediatrician-saw-inside-a-border-patrol-warehouse/ar-AADNTNs?li=BBnb7Kz

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What a Pediatrician Saw Inside a Border Patrol Warehouse (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2019 OP
This is so hard to read The Blue Flower Jul 2019 #1
Yes, MyOwnPeace Jul 2019 #2
Crimes against Humanity malaise Jul 2019 #3
so again, I ask this... FirstLight Jul 2019 #4

MyOwnPeace

(16,923 posts)
2. Yes,
Wed Jul 3, 2019, 07:26 PM
Jul 2019

and the thought of an orange asshole standing proud in our nation's capital viewing his own "blow-me" tribute while this is going on is enough to throw one into a rage.

This is AMERICA!

HOW can we let this happen?

FirstLight

(13,357 posts)
4. so again, I ask this...
Wed Jul 3, 2019, 08:11 PM
Jul 2019

WHO can actually step in and save us from ourselves at this point?

There has got to be a Human Rights International SOMETHING!!!

I sent an email to the San Francisco office of Human Rights Watch
https://www.hrw.org/contact-us

And am looking at the UN Human Rights Council
https://www.ohchr.org/en/hrbodies/hrc/pages/aboutcouncil.aspx

There has to be accountability somewhere... I thought we'd never let Hitler happen again...

Is there an International Court for Crimes Against Humanity?

(on edit)
I found this.... sent another contact email I wish I could do more...
https://trialinternational.org/topics-post/crimes-against-humanity/

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