Girls are being forced to sit in spoiled clothing for days and only given one pad per day while on their periods.
The suit, filed by 19 states, challenges the Department of Homeland Security’s latest regulations around detaining migrant children. In addition to children being held for days, sometimes weeks longer than they legally should be in these centers, kids are living in overpopulated areas and infants are being cared for by kids as young as eight or nine. They are being denied medical care, and even access to basic care items like toothbrushes and soap.
“After a number of days, she summoned her courage and asked for a shower, and was given one,” the report claimed. “She recalls there was another girl at the facility who was also on her period. They were each given one sanitary pad per day. Although the guards knew they had their periods, they were not offered showers or a change of clothes, even when the other girl visibly bled through her pants.
The lawsuit argues that this handling of children in detention centers goes against the Flores settlement, a 1997 agreement which
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