The following article by Molly Hennessy-Fiske was posted on the Los Angles Times website June 14, 2018:
A rare inside look inside the Southwest Key shelters where migrant children are sent after they’re separated from their parents at the border under Trump’s new “zero tolerance” policy.
Colleagues at a government-contracted shelter in Arizona had a specific request for Antar Davidson when three Brazilian migrant children arrived: “Tell them they can’t hug.”
Davidson, 32, is of Brazilian descent and speaks Portuguese. He said the siblings — ages 16, 10 and 6 — were distraught after being separated from their parents at the border. The children were “huddled together, tears streaming down their faces,” he said. Continue reading “‘Prison-like’ migrant youth shelter is understaffed, unequipped for Trump’s ‘zero tolerance’ policy, insider says”