4 Severely Ill Migrant Toddlers Hospitalized After Lawyers Visit Border Patrol Facility

[demmiblue]

The kids were unresponsive, feverish and vomiting, yet receiving no medical care, according to lawyers.

Four toddlers were so severely ill and neglected at a U.S. Border Patrol facility in McAllen, Texas, that lawyers forced the government to hospitalize them last week.

The children, all under age 3 with teenage mothers or guardians, were feverish, coughing, vomiting and had diarrhea, immigration attorneys told HuffPost on Friday. Some of the toddlers and infants were refusing to eat or drink. One 2-year-old’s eyes were rolled back in her head, and she was “completely unresponsive” and limp, according to Toby Gialluca, a Florida-based attorney.

She described seeing terror in the children’s eyes.

“It’s just a cold, fearful look that you should never see in a child of that age,” Gialluca said. “You look at them and you think, ‘What have you seen?’”

Another mother at the same facility had a premature baby, who was “listless” and wrapped in a dirty towel, as HuffPost previously reported.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/four-severely-ill-migrant-babies-hospitalized-after-lawyers-visited-border-patrol-facility_n_5d0d3bbce4b07ae90d9cfe4f

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This is just horrifying.

[Initech]

1. How are we supposed to believe that they're not concentration camps???

[Midnightwalk]

2. Agree

Fuck the euphemisms. We can’t wait until they are full blown extermination camps before calling them what they are.

Is it legal to take pictures of license plates entering these properties?

[Initech]

6. We don't have time to have the debate either.

Alexandria Ocasio Cortez is right - these are concentration camps. What the republicans are doing to the border is absolutely despicable and should be considered a crime against humanity. We cannot wait to act on this. By the time we do, it will be too late. We can't wait for the SS death squads to show up, something must be done now.

[ancianita]

12. If you can, do it. You'd be helping save lives, constitutional rights equally weighed.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

23. Yes, it is completely legal.

Snap away.

[struggle4progress]

5. +

[blueinredohio]

3. How could you see things like this and do nothing?

I hope something is done soon to end all this. Those poor people.

[demmiblue]

4. Hell, they are even officially arguing that soap, toothpaste and beds are not necessary.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1017545030

Assholes.

[Traildogbob]

9. Melanie visited the facilities

Nothing to see here. She thought everyone was being best.

[emmaverybo]

27. She really didn't care did she? Nt

[ancianita]

7. Now toddlers have to die in this fucking dictator's concentration camps. TODDLERS!

ALL of Texas ICE must be replaced. ALL from the bottom to top in Texas.

Killing innocence is what totalitarians and their racist cults do.




Eternal shame on Texas.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

20. Shame on all of us. These agents probably have been committing atrocities....

for many years against immigrants with total impunity because it's kept hidden. They probably see those people as sub-human, just like blacks and Native Americans were treated (still are to a degree) for many decades across America.

Apparently, there is no law providing accountability from arrest to detention to release. The immigrants have had no recourse other than to deal with the cruelty, run away or be deported.

Trump's rampant actions against immigrants, migrants and refugees the last two years has brought much of this into daylight.

This does not represent America's core values. However, we're all accountable to a degree for accepting products and services we know damn well are produced by migrant labor.

[dlk]

8. Trump & the Republicans are Treating These Children Worse Than Farm Animals

They all belong behind bars!

[Leghorn21]

10. McAllen forecast:

These temperatures alone put so many vulnerable children at risk, not to mention older people as well

this is so BAD

[ancianita]

11. Shit. Glad the LAW has forced ICE to send them to hospitals.

[Johnny2X2X]

13. Dead kids we don't know about.

I have zero doubt there are dead children buried somewhere that we do not know about. Trump has greenlighted all types of abuse with his vicious rhetoric.

[bluestarone]

14. I'd like to see EVERY DEM. house member head to the border with

MSM cameras rolling! and court orders to ENTER!!!!

[Duppers]

21. +100

[Shaddox]

15. Welcome to your end times, America.

[cate94]

16. This is sickening.

What the hell are we doing?

[Haggis for Breakfast]

24. I don't know what others are doing,

but I have been calling my congress people EVERYDAY for two weeks demanding they act on this before children start dying.

I am so sick of this, I can't sleep at night anymore.

[kimbutgar]

17. Fat Donnie is an evil monster and committing future genocide by neglect of these innocent people

Seeking refuge from crime.

I hope he burns in hell for eternity when he dies.

[democrank]

18. I can't even find any words....

[madamesilverspurs]

19. MAGA

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[backscatter712]

22. Time to add to the impeachment charges: Crimes Against Humanity.

When we're done with that subhuman monster, he should be getting a date with the needle (judicially administered, of course.)

[Crunchy Frog]

25. It wouldn't surprise me if there's been scores of infant and child deaths

At those facilities that are being covered up.

The article mentioned that the guards referred to infants and children as "bodies". Also described an 8 month old sick baby forced to sleep outside on concrete after her clothes were taken away.

Is it a deliberate policy to eliminate as many children as possible? How would we even know?

[CountAllVotes]

26. +1

n/t

[emmaverybo]

28. There is one good bit of news. Lawyers had to have been alerted or have had some, even if very

limited, access to these children. It is only going to be through legal means that anything can be accomplished.
Groups from the House have been denied access. Reporters, photographers denied.
I am not understanding how child protection services is not involved.
News has been getting out about conditions.
I assume that the federal government can violate human rights with impunity as they did in Guantanamo and not allow any oversight agencies to interfere, human services organizations, the Red Cross, human rights groups, observation even.
If in a US hospital would not these children be able to be taken into protective custody? I suppose that’s a moot question as this would mean separation and perhaps more unsafe conditions, though hard to imagine.
Does any one know if court cases are going forward based on what these or any other lawyers have observed at this facility or any other?

[akraven]

29. These "people"ARE. NOT. HUMAN.

Period, EOM.