This is disgusting!
Trump administration argues in court that detained migrant children don't need toothbrushes or soap and they can sleep on concrete floors
The Trump administration went to court this week to argue that migrant children detained at the United States-Mexico border do not require basic hygiene products like soap and toothbrushes in order to be in held in "safe and sanitary" conditions. Trump's team also argued that requiring minors to sleep on cold concrete floors in crowded cells with low temperatures similarly fulfilled that requirement.
Arguing in a 9th district San Francisco court about the conditions that they must hold migrant children in, the administration said that they did not violate a precedent set by a landmark 1985 class action lawsuit which established guidelines for the way minors held in federal immigration detention must be treated. ........
"Are you arguing seriously that you do not read the agreement as requiring you to do anything other than what I just described: cold all night long, lights on all night long, sleeping on concrete and you've got an aluminum foil blanket?" U.S. Circuit Judge William Fletcher asked Fabian. "I find that inconceivable that the government would say that that is safe and sanitary."
The three Federal judges seemed shocked at the administration's argument.
Denying basic needs and making the children sleep on a concrete floor with an aluminum blanket is child abuse, as I see it.
There have been 7 deaths, and even John Sanders, the acting commissioner of Customs and Border Protection said that another 4.6 billion was needed to prevent more deaths.
I find this to be evil.