Posted on 07/19/2018 7:43:19 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Immigrant parents and children alleged in interviews filed in federal court this week that they faced mistreatment while being held in U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) facilities, saying they were often deprived of food, water and sleep.
In the interviews, which included some redactions and were filed as part of a lawsuit against the government's detention of minors, the immigrants described not being allowed to shower for days and being given rotten food and dirty drinking water.
One woman described as Lidia, 22, said during her interview that she and her 4-year-old son “went hungry the entire time” they were detained in McAllen, Texas.
“The only food we were given were sandwiches that were frozen and not able to be eaten,” the El-Salvador citizen said.
Sergio, 17, said that he and his father were separated after they arrived at the border from their home country of Guatemala. He said his father is now facing deportation.
“I do not want to be here anymore, especially since I know how much my father is suffering. The way I have been treated makes me feel like I don’t matter, like I am trash,” Sergio said.
A 10-year-old girl from Honduras, Dixiana, said through a translator that she was given a frozen ham sandwich but that “the ham was black," adding that she “took one bite but did not eat the rest."
Mayra, 29, said during her interview that her 9-year-old son is “badly traumatized” after being held in a detention center. She said her son began wetting the bed and that she wasn’t allowed to feed her 2-year-old daughter formula.
“He saw someone bound with chains and asked me whether I would be chained in the same way…He wonders when we will get to the United States. I do not tell him that we are already here. He wouldn’t believe that the United States would treat us this way,” Mayra said in the interview.
The statements were taken during June and July of this year. Attorneys for the Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law, which represents the immigrants in the case, allege that the interviews prove the government is violating the Flores settlement.
The settlement, established in 1997, blocks the federal government from detaining immigrant children for more than 20 days and dictates the treatment of the children.
CPB spokesperson Daniel Hetlage told BuzzFeed News that the agency doesn’t comment on pending litigation.
“However, lack of comment should not be construed as agreement or stipulation with any of the allegations. CBP takes all allegations seriously, and investigates all formal complaints,” he said.
“The only food we were given were sandwiches that were frozen and not able to be eaten,” the El-Salvador citizen said.
Which is it? Were they not given any food the entire time or were they given sandwiches?
The frozen sandwiches might have been Uncrustables (a type of PB&J sandwich).
Did the Leftist Lawyers couch them to complain like sniveling Leftists?
The easiest way to avoid any of this is for these illegal leeches to quit trying to break into the country.
Deport them all.
THIS IS ALL BOVINE EXCREMENT!
Wait a few minutes and the sandwiches will thaw.
Yes, they were all coached re what to say, every step of the way!
I guess that in retrospect, I’m surprised these lawsuits took as long as they did, particularly considering how predictable they were.
I’ve been on migrant ops. Feeding is kept at basic dietary needs and very bland. Otherwise they get sick.
With Haitians it was white rice and green peas. At first we put chicken in the mix and it upset their digestive systems. A Haitian doctor intervened and told up it was much to rich. So it was kept bland.
Shysters
These lawyers were waiting at the border to coach them on claiming they were persecuted in their homeland.
The problem is that they are deprived of Mexico.
Yep!
Guess what ?
Absent invading our country, you’d not have been mistreated .. and that’s assuming that any of this is true, which I seriously doubt.
(hint for prospective wetbacks: frozen stuff thaws, and rather quickly in the Southwest .. a little patience and voila! Lunch!)
It took them awhile to find a narrative they could work with.
I want illegal aliens to be treated humanely. I want them humanely and quickly escorted back across the border.
So they were being held in Northern Alaska and unable to defrost the sandwiches?
Liars all!!!!
These people make me sick.
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Yes, they were, but there were also people in Mexico who coached them as well; not to mention the damned coyotes!
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