"Children, including the very young, have been spending weeks or months in an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) detention facility in a remote part of Texas where outside monitors have heard accounts of shortages of clean drinking water, chronic sleep deprivation and kids struggling for hygiene supplies and prompt medical attention, as revealed in a stark new court filing. Legal experts able to"
"At the facility in Dilley, a small town an hour south-west of San Antonio, kids and their parents described a prison-like environment where the guards reportedly call them inmates despite them not being criminals, and said they live in cell-like trailers. In a response to the government's court-ordered compliance report, attorneys at the legal groups responsible for monitoring child detention asserted on behalf of people held that: Family detention is not only cruel and fundamentally harmful to children but also unjustified."
Children, including infants and toddlers, have spent weeks or months at an ICE family detention center in remote Dilley, Texas, experiencing reported shortages of clean drinking water, chronic sleep deprivation, limited hygiene supplies and delayed medical attention. Legal monitors reported deprivations, violations of agreed basic detention standards and humanitarian concerns at the only known ICE center holding families. Families described a prison-like environment where guards reportedly call them inmates and residents live in cell-like trailers. The South Texas Family Residential Center is operated for ICE by CoreCivic, which expects roughly $180 million in annual revenue from the property through at least March 2030. Routine site visits produced detailed filings in a US district court on 15 September. CoreCivic referred inquiries to ICE, ICE referred to the Department of Homeland Security, and an ICE juvenile coordinator stated the agency is complying with legal requirements.
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