Last week began with a debate over whether migrant detention centers could be described as “concentration camps.” It ended with reports of undocumented migrant children being held in conditions ‘worse than jail,’ according to a visiting physician.
A Central American migrant family recently released from federal detention waits to board a bus in McAllen, Texas on June 12. Photo: LOREN ELLIOTT/AFP/Getty Images Last week began with a broad political discussion on whether Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s designation of migrant detention centers as “concentration camps” was the correct nomenclature for holding rooms in which 41 detainees live in a cell built for eight.
Sevier told ABC News that the teenagers she observed were not able to wash their hands while in custody, which she called “tantamount to intentionally causing the spread of disease.” Teen mothers in custody described to her not being able to clean their children’s bottles: “To deny parents the ability to wash their infant’s bottles is unconscionable and could be considered intentional mental and emotional abuse,” Sevier wrote.
So, on Wednesday, we received reports from children of a lice outbreak in one of the cells where there were about twenty-five children, and what they told us is that six of the children were found to have lice. And so they were given a lice shampoo, and the other children were given two combs and told to share those two combs, two lice combs, and brush their hair with the same combs, which is something you never do with a lice outbreak.
Protests at Fort Sill As New York’s Eric Levitz wrote in his survey of the “what to call the intentionally cruel camps” debate: “Progressives shouldn’t need to invoke the Holocaust to place migrant-detention centers in their proper context. The border separating the United States from lands dominated by nonwhite peoples has been a site of white-nationlist violence since the founding of our republic.” And, predicting the detention vs.
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