NEWS: (New York Times) Children In Detention and In Danger

Opinion | Hundreds of Children Rot in the Desert. End Trump's Draconian Policies.

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"Staff members at shelters cried as the children were removed, they told The Times, out of dread for what the children would now face. The tent city in Texas is not being held to any of the rules that group homes or foster care facilities are subject to. And those existing safeguards had already proved inadequate protection against physical abuse, sexual assault and emotional torment. "