Illegal immigrant children are being traumatized by the government’s emergency border shelters, which are spurring some to try to escape and pushing others toward suicidal tendencies, according to court documents filed this week that paint the worst picture yet of conditions the Biden administration is overseeing. Children held for weeks on end with no information about their status or cases felt “intense psychological distress,” and some have resorted to violence or tried to break out of the shelters, attorneys for the children told Judge Dolly M. Gee. Add to that a lack of clean clothes, being trapped inside a tent for 22 hours a day and no respite from the staff’s prying eyes, and children said it’s unlike anything they could have imagined.
Illegal immigrant children say they were ‘held hostage’ by conditions in HHS shelters – Washington Times
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