'My soul aches': Detained migrants say the needs of children and pregnant women are being ignored as they're held in 'prison-like' conditions
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- Detained migrants say the needs of children and pregnant women are being broadly ignored by US immigration officers as they're held in what have been described as "prison-like" conditions.
- The accounts of these migrants, many of whom fled violent situations in Central America, paint a bleak picture of life in US detention facilities.
- Thousands of migrant children have been separated from their parents or guardians at the US-Mexico border as a consequence of the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" immigration policy.
Detained migrants say the needs of children and pregnant women are being broadly ignored by US immigration officers as they're held in what have been described as "prison-like" conditions.
Adults and children alike face solitary confinement, lockdowns, and unsanitary bathrooms, according to hundreds of pages of court documents linked to a lawsuit filed by a group of state attorneys general over the Trump administration's separation of migrant families.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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