4 Severely Ill Migrant Toddlers From Border Patrol Facility Hospitalized
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/four-...b07ae90d9cfe4f
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Four toddlers were so severely ill and neglected at a U.S. Border Patrol facility in McAllen, Texas, that lawyers forced the government to hospitalize them last week.
The children, all under age 3 with teenage mothers or guardians, were feverish, coughing, vomiting and had diarrhea, immigration attorneys told HuffPost on Friday. Some of the toddlers and infants were refusing to eat or drink. One 2-year-old’s eyes were rolled back in her head, and she was “completely unresponsive” and limp, according to Toby Gialluca, a Florida-based attorney.
She described seeing terror in the children’s eyes.
“It’s just a cold, fearful look that you should never see in a child of that age,” Gialluca said. “You look at them and you think, ‘What have you seen?’”
Another mother at the same facility had a premature baby, who was “listless” and wrapped in a dirty towel, as HuffPost previously reported.
The lawyers feared that if they had not shown up at the facility, the sick kids would have received zero medical attention and potentially died. The Trump administration has come under fire for its treatment ― and its alleged neglect ― of migrants who have been crossing the southern border in record numbers. The result is overcrowded facilities, slow medical care and in some instances, deaths.
You see stories like this nearly every day. It's absolutely appalling, and I have no idea how it's being allowed to happen nor why it would happen in the first place. Regardless of how you feel about immigration, these are innocent children. No one can justify this, and yet we're (Americans) under an administration that's enabling it. You can say I'm overreacting or being too dramatic or whatever else, but history won't be kind to Trump's America.
