Posted on 07/04/2018 6:53:08 AM PDT by BBell
A 15-year-old girl who was forcibly separated from her mother after fleeing to the U.S. from El Salvador described to a Washington State investigator how she was crammed into a windowless room with 60 other girls and deprived of proper sleep or food for three days.
The room was divided by wire fencing into three cages, with each one holding 20 separated girls -- some as young as 3 years old, according to an affidavit filed late Monday (July 2) in federal court in Seattle. The girls, who weren't told when they'd see their parents again, called it the "icebox."
"The place was freezing because they kept the air conditioner on all the time, and each child was given a mat and an aluminum blanket," the investigator for Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson wrote. "The girls placed their mats in the floor very close to one another, since there was not enough space."
The affidavit is part of a lawsuit by 17 states and the District of Columbia that seeks to block the child-separation policy on constitutional grounds. The states on Monday asked the court to order the government to begin quickly turning over evidence.
"The states have repeatedly demanded basic information about their well-being, but were answered with silence," according to the filing.
More than 2,000 children were taken under the Trump administration's zero-tolerance policy for prosecuting illegal border crossings and sent to states across the U.S. President Donald Trump issued an executive order to halt the practice started by Attorney General Jeff Sessions, but the directive may conflict with the zero-tolerance policy. The administration, which hasn't yet answered the suit, didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
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Don’t like it? Stay in your own country.
We owe you nothing.
Where she is from,El Salvador, they may still use ice boxes.
I’m 67 and we had an icebox until I was around four. The older kids in my family used to call the refrigerator “the icebox”, the younger kids called it the fridge.
How the world changes.
Maybe they did have an icebox? I admit I didn’t even notice the strange use of the word. The word icebox for refrigerator still seems natural to me. Wonder what my grandkids think?
Three whole days, eh? My, my, that’s a shame.
That’s it! No more air conditioning at facilities holding illegal immigrants.
The left is looking for a David Hogg of immigration issues.
Fake news...I think liberals are trying to make this an issue for November...
Yep. That is why I added politics/elections to the topics.
“At 15, she’s old enough to do time behind bars.”
In Mexico she was old enough to have had 2 babies.
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