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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"...stand up and tell us that being able to sleep isn't a question of safe and sanitary conditions?'
https://www.courthousenews.com/feds-tell-9th-circuit-detained-kids-safe-and-sanitary-without-soap/Feds Tell 9th Circuit: Detained Kids Safe and Sanitary Without Soap
June 18, 2019
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) The Trump administration argued in front of a Ninth Circuit panel Tuesday that the government is not required to give soap or toothbrushes to children apprehended at the U.S.-Mexico border and can have them sleep on concrete floors in frigid, overcrowded cells, despite a settlement agreement that requires detainees be kept in safe and sanitary facilities.
All three judges appeared incredulous during the hearing in San Francisco, in which the Trump administration challenged previous legal findings that it is violating a landmark class action settlement by mistreating undocumented immigrant children at U.S. detention facilities.
Youre really going to stand up and tell us that being able to sleep isnt a question of safe and sanitary conditions?' U.S. Circuit Judge Marsha Berzon asked the Justice Departments Sarah Fabian Tuesday.
U.S. Circuit Judge William Fletcher also questioned the governments interpretation of the settlement agreement.
Are you arguing seriously that you do not read the agreement as requiring you to do anything other than what I just described: cold all night long, lights on all night long, sleeping on concrete and youve got an aluminum foil blanket? Fletcher asked Fabian. I find that inconceivable that the government would say that that is safe and sanitary.
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"...stand up and tell us that being able to sleep isn't a question of safe and sanitary conditions?' (Original Post)
G_j
Jun 2019
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G_j
(40,367 posts)2. I think that concept is a bit too deep for them
to grasp. Besides, they dont really care.
Johnny2X2X
(19,066 posts)3. We are systemically abusing children
This is a shame on our whole nation and completely disgusting. Children who've done zero wrong are being abused and our government is doing the abusing.
Calculating
(2,955 posts)4. Pathetic
Soap, toothbrushes, and a decent place to sleep aren't considered necessities? This is blatant child abuse condoned by the US government. How low have we fallen?