A Single Trump Appointee Was Responsible For Keeping Hundreds Of Kids Locked Up Longer
Source: HUFF POST
07/26/2018 05:46 am ET Updated 8 hours ago
He’s the same guy who blocked a teenage migrant who’d been raped from obtaining an abortion.
A Trump appointee’s decision to personally review requests to release migrant children from jail-like “secure facilities” created a bureaucratic bottleneck that dramatically increased the amount of time kids spent locked up.
Office of Refugee Resettlement chief E. Scott Lloyd ― who first attracted national interest when a federal court slapped down his attempt to ban a teenage migrant who’d been raped from obtaining an abortion ― told subordinates last year that he’d have to personally sign off before any kids could be released from ORR’s secure facilities.
As a result, hundreds of kids spent extra time in the jail-like facilities, which have been associated with far more allegations of abuse and mistreatment than the shelters and homestays that hold most of the children in ORR custody.
Over the past two years, migrant children in federal custody have been forcibly injected with psychotropic drugs at a Shiloh Residential Treatment Center outside Houston, according to court filings. (The psychiatrist responsible for prescribing the medications lost his board certification nearly a decade ago, according to Reveal.) Others were pepper-sprayed or locked in restraints with bags over their heads as punishment for misbehaving at Shenandoah Valley Juvenile Center in Virginia............................................
Read more: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/scott-lloyd-refugee-resettlement_us_5b58cd0fe4b0fd5c73cb3c1a
And why is this Lloyd guy still working in this capacity???
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Scott Lloyd, director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement, testifies during a House judiciary committee hearing on Capitol Hill, Oct. 26, 2017.
Five immigrant children sue Trump administration for ‘cruel policies and practices’
http://thehill.com/latino/394952-five-immigrant-children-sue-trump-administration-for-cruel-policies-and-practices
By Avery Anapol - 06/30/18 07:50 AM EDT
Five immigrant children who have been detained in federal custody are suing the Trump administration over “cruel” policies.
The lawsuit, filed Friday in a federal court in California, names Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar and E. Scott Lloyd, the director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement, as defendants.
The five children in the complaint, Lucas, Daniela, Miguel, Gabriela and Jaime, are between the ages of 12 and 17, and all arrived unaccompanied. They are not a part of the wave of children who have been separated from their parents after crossing the border under President Trump’s “zero tolerance” policy.
The complaint alleges that the minors have been held in “jail-like” conditions and experienced “cruel” practices, including being prescribed antidepressants, that may result in lifelong trauma and “emotional harm," according to BuzzFeed News.
The lawsuit also accuses the administration of violating the Flores settlement, which requires that detention of immigrant children be minimized by releasing them to family or to guardians in the U.S. The children are not being released to guardians that the governments believes are "or may be unfit.".....................................
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He committed crimes against humanity.
Sadly, he like far too many in this administration have no shame...
