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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What do you expect?
Bloomberg is technically a good news source, but Bloomberg has a HEAVY personal bias, which is completely unacceptable.
This is a perfect example, of the personal bias.
Hugely wrong, on so many levels.
They are “illegals” period! They lie and cheat and you can’t believe anything they say. Sounds like Democrats doesn’t it?
ping
Coming from a land where the temp and humidity are always in the 90’s any a/c room in the 70’s would seem like an icebox. If the USA is so cruel why didn’t they stay in Mek eeek oH!?
“The place was freezing because they kept the air conditioner on all the time,
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LOL
I was wondering how they could have been cold in 100 degree weather !!!
:):):)
Now ask the girl about the deadly hot desert she came through to get to that nice cool room...
Come in at a border crossing, you dont get separated. Climb a fence, get busted by the cops. Same rules apply to citizens.
The reason they are fleeing their sxithole countries is lawlessness. Get used to laws and air conditioning looser...
So lawyers get to spend our tax money to pass a law to get us to spend more tax money.
Got it.
Wait no year is mentioned
This sounds like 2014 - the year obamas policies spurred a flood of child smuggling
She’s griping because they had air conditioning.
Icebox. That is a strange word for an illegal to use IMO. I’m 70 and my mom would call the fridge an icebox because when she was young they had an icebox with a big block of ice to keep food cold. I’m not sure, is the word icebox used by the younger generation, specifically an illegal who is supposedly 15?
Next time we’ll put them in a pitch black flooded cave without food or proper pajamas or a cell phone. Load this snowflake and her mama on a bus back to whence they came IMMEDIATELY. Brand them with a scarlet letter so we’ll know next time they decide to cross illegally.
At 15, she’s old enough to do time behind bars.
2014 is exactly what I thought and most likely what this article omits. Gotta go through zheir BS with a fine toothed comb.
I remember when the first waves of Guantanamo prisoners complained that they were “dragged across broken glass.” Turns out there was an oridinary graystone gravel walkway, and they refused to walk upright with an officer on both sides, so when officers put hands under their armpits to lead them, they went limp and had to be dragged across the gravel. But their legs and knees were covered by orange jumpsuits, and being dragged was their choice. Being there at all was a result of their poor choices earlier.
Sucks to be an hysterical liar.
So what?
Don’t break into other countries.
At home, not saying a thing since their guy was in charge.
Detention, arrests, and prosecution is fine as long as it is being done by leftists. They only get upset when other people do the same thing.
ICE, ICE baby - so cold, so cold...
An absolute lie. Pure fiction.
chicken butt
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