No, It’s Not the Same Old Thing at the Border

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image A woman walks carrying her child at the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) South Texas Family Residential Center, in Dilley, Texas, August 23, 2019. © 2019 AP Photo/Eric Gay, File Recent reports of children being held for prolonged periods in packed unhygienic conditions, sleeping on mats on the floor of border jails, conjured the faces of children I spoke with in the same dangerous and unacceptable situation in 2019, under the administration of former US President Donald Trump. No child should be held for hours, much less days, in such conditions. But…

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