Despite Warnings, Trump Moves to Expand Migrant Family Detention

Written by <a href="index.php?option=com_comprofiler&task=userProfile&user=52548"><span class="small">Caitlin Dickerson, The New York Times</span></a>

Friday, 13 December 2019 14:14

Dickerson writes: "On a burning hot day last summer at the South Texas Family Residential Center, a federal detention facility for immigrant families, Kenia and her son, Michael, 11, were hunched over a foosball table in an air-conditioned recreation room when Michael dropped to the floor and started sobbing."

The South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas, is part of a system of detention facilities for migrant families. (photo: Illana Panich-Linsman/The New York Times)

Despite Warnings, Trump Moves to Expand Migrant Family Detention

By Caitlin Dickerson, The New York Times

13 December 19

Tiny prison uniforms were replaced with T-shirts. Health care and schooling improved. Experts say there is still no safe way to incarcerate families.

n a burning hot day last summer at the South Texas Family Residential Center, a federal detention facility for immigrant families, Kenia and her son, Michael, 11, were hunched over a foosball table in an air-conditioned recreation room when Michael dropped to the floor and started sobbing. He curled his body into a ball and writhed as if he were in pain.

The other parents and children in the room looked up from their jump ropes and boomboxes as Kenia knelt down and pleaded into Michael�s ear: Would he please go back to their room before the guards noticed him?

�I don�t want to be here, I don�t want to be here,� Michael shouted, his eyes clenched.

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