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http://www.newsweek.com/customs-and-border-control-beat-kicked-and-threatened-migrant-children-under-941385Migrant children under the care of United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) were allegedly beaten, threatened with sexual violence and repeatedly assaulted while in custody between 2009 and 2014, according to a report released Wednesday from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the International Human Rights Clinic at the University of Chicago Law School.
Based on 30,000 pages of documents obtained through a records request, the report includes gruesome, detailed accusations of physical and mental abuse at the hands of officers. The claims were filed by unaccompanied minors, most of whom hailed from El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico and Honduras. CBP officials have contested large swaths of the report, telling Newsweek that many of the allegations have been investigated and are "false."
Border authorities were accused of kicking a child in the ribs and forcing a 16-year-old girl to spread her legs for an aggressive body search. Other children accused officers of punching a child in the head three times, running over a 17-year-old boy and denying medical care to a pregnant teen, who later had a stillbirth.
Mitra Ebadolahi, ACLU Border Litigation Project staff attorney, said the allegations describe a law enforcement system "marked by brutality and lawlessness." The organization also accused Border Protection officials of failing to meaningfully investigate the allegations detailed in the public records.... more
dalton99a
(81,515 posts)Solly Mack
(90,770 posts)K&R
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I hate these people who would do such things. What on earth is wrong with someone who would treat a child like that?
riversedge
(70,242 posts)Wwcd
(6,288 posts)Kittycow
(2,396 posts)I know that I would be seething with hate for the USA if this happened to me, as a teen or older child.
Niagara
(7,627 posts)what's happening to these children under Trump's Regime?
Never mind, I don't want to know.
Roland99
(53,342 posts)Beyond inexcusable to not know whats going on with families at the border!
Niagara
(7,627 posts)You would have the ask the Obama admin why they did nothing or knew nothing!
Roland99
(53,342 posts)Sometimes in ways that were horrible dereliction of duty.
BigmanPigman
(51,608 posts)bronxiteforever
(9,287 posts)All those workers in the ice facilities who hate the policy or have an ax to grind will leak pictures. I mean they got pictures out of Nazi concentration camps where the penalty was death.
This is going to continue to horrify the Nation for some time.
zentrum
(9,865 posts)Weimar.