Trump’s war on immigrant children, continued

This 20 July 2018 video from the USA says about itself:

Salvadoran Mother Reunited with 3-Year-Old Son Says He Shows Signs of Trauma & Aggressive Behavior

On Wednesday, Democracy Now!’s Laura Gottesdiener sat down with a Salvadoran mother named Belqui Yessenia Castillo Cortez, who reunited with her 3-year-old son Michael last week after they were separated by immigration officials at the border in Texas. Federal documents show the mother and son arrived at the legal port of entry in Rio Grande City on May 28, 2018, to apply for asylum in the United States. Immigration authorities detained them and then separated them, sending Belqui to the Port Isabel Detention Center in Texas, while her 3-year-old son was flown all the way to New York and held in a facility run by a human services agency called Abbott House. “His behavior is really aggressive”, she says. “He wasn’t like this before. … He’s violent, more than anything else.”

This 20 July 2018 video from the USA says about itself:

Migrant Children Detained in Shelters Being Drugged, Told Not to Hug, Forced to Bathe in Sinks

The Trump administration has less than a week to meet a court-ordered deadline to reunite children and parents separated at the U.S.-Mexico border under its “zero tolerance” policy. This comes as advocates say some migrant children have been released from federally contracted shelters with scabies and lice. In Illinois, officials are investigating the Chicago nonprofit Heartland Alliance over allegations it housed children separated from their parents at the border, with many of the children reportedly suffering abuse and neglect. We speak with Reveal reporter Aura Bogado, who has exposed a second office used by military contractor MVM to hold migrant children. This time, the children had to bathe in bathroom sinks.

This 20 July 2018 video from the USA says about itself:

Psychologists: Migrant Parents Reunited with Detained Children Must Brace for Trauma & Long Recovery

We discuss the psychological impacts family separation has on young children with Nancy Burke, psychoanalyst and a co-chair of the Psychotherapy Action Network, which helped publish a pamphlet aimed at helping immigrant parents separated from children. She’s on the faculty with the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis and Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University and says the trauma children are experiencing in detention “freezes them in time” and takes away their ability to express themselves.

Defense Contractor’s Use of Vacant Office Building to House Children Underscores ‘Perverse Secrecy’ of Trump Immigration Policy. “This thing where the government took children from their parents at the border? It’s more horrific than we have imagined”: here.

Lost among the wall-to-wall press coverage of allegations of Russian interference in US politics is a recent revelation that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) received 1,310 reports of rape and sexual assault of immigrant detainees by ICE officials between 2013 and 2017 alone: here.

HOMELAND COUNCIL MEMBERS RESIGN OVER ‘CHILD KIDNAPPING’ Four members of the Homeland Security Advisory Council have resigned over the Trump administration’s forced family separations, with one writing that the policy is “child kidnapping, plain and simple.” [HuffPost]

The practice of separating children from refugee parents, being carried out by the Trump administration to universal condemnation and revulsion worldwide, has been practised in the UK for years: here.

When Jews Were ‘Illegals’, They Took Away Our Children, by Henry Abramson.