American Academy Of Pediatrics President Calls Trump Border Policy 'Child Abuse'
By Lydia O'Connor at the Huffington Post
https://www.google.com/amp/s/m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5b27f437e4b0783ae12bfe6d/amp
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“These children have been traumatized on their trip up to the border, and the first thing that happens is we take away the one constant in their life that helps them buffer all these horrible experiences,” she said of the nearly 2,000 children affected by the crackdown. “That’s child abuse.”
Kraft has recounted to several media outlets what she saw when she recently visited a shelter for migrant children near the U.S.-Mexico border. Even though children were screaming in fear, pounding their fists on the ground in frustration or sitting in unusual silence, neither she nor the shelter workers were allowed to touch or console them, she said.
Those types of conditions produce “toxic stress” that, when gone unchecked, “inhibits development of their brains,” Kraft told CNN.
“It disrupts their brain architecture and keeps them from developing language and social emotional bonds and gross motor skills and the development that they could possibly have,” she continued.
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