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In June 2019, a legal team inspected (per the ''[[Flores settlement]]'') a facility in [[Clint, Texas]] (near El Paso) where 250 infant, child and teenage migrants were detained. The lawyers accused the government of neglecting and mistreating the young migrants. The relatively older minors had to take care of the younger ones. The children said they were not fed fruits or vegetables and had not bathed or changed their clothes in weeks. The children were "essentially being warehoused, as many as 300 children in a cell, with almost no adult supervision." The children were "malnourished", there were outbreaks of flu and lice, and "children sleeping on the floor". Professor Warren Binford of the Willamette University was one of the inspectors. She declared that in her years of inspections, this was "the worst conditions" she had ever seen. She also said that the children at Clint were claiming asylum. In response to the situation at Clint, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) declared: "our short-term holding facilities were not designed to hold vulnerable populations and we urgently need additional humanitarian funding to manage this crisis."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://apnews.com/46da2dbe04f54adbb875cfbc06bbc615|title=Attorneys: Texas border facility is neglecting migrant kids|last1=Attanasio|first1=Cedar|last2=Burke|first2=Garance|date=2019-06-21|website= | In June 2019, a legal team inspected (per the ''[[Flores settlement]]'') a facility in [[Clint, Texas]] (near El Paso) where 250 infant, child and teenage migrants were detained. The lawyers accused the government of neglecting and mistreating the young migrants. The relatively older minors had to take care of the younger ones. The children said they were not fed fruits or vegetables and had not bathed or changed their clothes in weeks. The children were "essentially being warehoused, as many as 300 children in a cell, with almost no adult supervision." The children were "malnourished", there were outbreaks of flu and lice, and "children sleeping on the floor". Professor Warren Binford of the Willamette University was one of the inspectors. She declared that in her years of inspections, this was "the worst conditions" she had ever seen. She also said that the children at Clint were claiming asylum. In response to the situation at Clint, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) declared: "our short-term holding facilities were not designed to hold vulnerable populations and we urgently need additional humanitarian funding to manage this crisis."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://apnews.com/46da2dbe04f54adbb875cfbc06bbc615|title=Attorneys: Texas border facility is neglecting migrant kids|last1=Attanasio|first1=Cedar|last2=Burke|first2=Garance|date=2019-06-21|website=Associated Press|access-date=June 22, 2019|last3=Mendoza|first3=Martha}}</ref><ref name="PBSinhumane">{{cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/a-firsthand-report-of-inhumane-conditions-at-a-migrant-childrens-detention-facility|title=A firsthand report of 'inhumane conditions' at a migrant children's detention facility|last1=Brangham|first1=William|date=June 21, 2019|website=[[PBS]]|access-date=June 22, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-48710432 |title=Are US child migrant detainees entitled to soap and beds? |work=BBC News |accessdate=June 23, 2019 |date=June 20, 2019}}</ref> | ||
Also that month, Dolly Lucio Sevier, a board-certified doctor, visited the largest CBP detention center in the United States, the [[Ursula (detention center)|Ursula facility]] in [[McAllen, Texas]] which held migrant minors. Her visit came after a flu outbreak at the facility that resulted in five infants requiring to enter a [[neonatal intensive care unit]]. Sevier wrote that a medical declaration that the "conditions within which [the migrant minors] are held could be compared to torture facilities ... extreme cold temperatures, lights on 24 hours a day, no adequate access to medical care, basic sanitation, water, or adequate food." All of the 39 children she assessed showed signs of [[Psychological trauma|trauma]].<ref name="ABCsevier">{{cite web|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/doctor-compares-conditions-immigrant-holding-centers-torture-facilities/story?id=63879031|title=Doctor compares conditions for unaccompanied children at immigrant holding centers to 'torture facilities'|last1=Marshall|first1=Serena|last2=Zak|first2=Lana|website=[[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]]|access-date=June 24, 2019|last3=Metz|first3=Jennifer}}</ref> | Also that month, Dolly Lucio Sevier, a board-certified doctor, visited the largest CBP detention center in the United States, the [[Ursula (detention center)|Ursula facility]] in [[McAllen, Texas]] which held migrant minors. Her visit came after a flu outbreak at the facility that resulted in five infants requiring to enter a [[neonatal intensive care unit]]. Sevier wrote that a medical declaration that the "conditions within which [the migrant minors] are held could be compared to torture facilities ... extreme cold temperatures, lights on 24 hours a day, no adequate access to medical care, basic sanitation, water, or adequate food." All of the 39 children she assessed showed signs of [[Psychological trauma|trauma]].<ref name="ABCsevier">{{cite web|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/doctor-compares-conditions-immigrant-holding-centers-torture-facilities/story?id=63879031|title=Doctor compares conditions for unaccompanied children at immigrant holding centers to 'torture facilities'|last1=Marshall|first1=Serena|last2=Zak|first2=Lana|website=[[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]]|access-date=June 24, 2019|last3=Metz|first3=Jennifer}}</ref> | ||