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Young children with animal cookies and other allegations of lack of conditions arrive from immigrant lawyers.
During those in Los Angeles, several illegal immigrant families were detained, including families with young children.
According to the lawyers, these families, who await deportation for their home countries, are being maintained in insufficient conditions, With little food and water available, in the California desert or in Texas.
“As they were above all men who were detained in these facilities, there were no separate rooms for families or women,” said Yliana Johansen-Méndez, director of programs at the Immdef Immigrant Defense Center. Customers explained that “they ended up Set up a makeshift tent in an outer area to host women and children. But, of course, there were no beds or showers. ”
The organization describes the situation of a family in which the Children, the youngest of whom were three years old, received a bag of chips, a box of animal crackers and a mini package of milk as unique groceries for one day.
According to lawyers, facilities for illegal immigrants awaiting deportation created in the USA They were not prepared for so much influx people.
