Americans have a moral obligaion to protect migrant children from family separations and support them with humane care
Echo Letter To the Editor of The New York times:
“Migrant Children Set to Lose Health Protections”
* (news article, Dec. 14) highlights a profound ethical lapse in the treatment of detained migrant children, who endure preventable illnesses and inadequate care. This systemic neglect not only endangers their well-being but also undermines the core principles of justice and humanity.
Children, regardless of their citizenship status, deserve access to basic health care. Denying such care to those in custody violates both moral and legal standards. Immediate steps are necessary: Increase funding for medical services, enforce stricter oversight of detention facilities and ensure accountability for the humane treatment of these children.
As a nation committed to human rights, we must uphold our responsibilities to the most vulnerable among us. Failing to do so reflects a disregard for the values we claim to represent.
From Jia Ulama in Farmington, Minnesota
*Report by Emily Baumgaertner: A court-ordered system for protecting the health of children detained at the southern border, put in place two years ago after several children died in custody, is set to expire nine days after Donald J. Trump takes office with plans to intensify the deportation of migrants.
The system, part of a July 2022, legal settlement between the government and lawyers representing migrant children in custody, set detailed protocols for detaining minors at Customs and Border Protection facilities in the Rio Grande Valley and El Paso sectors.
It required agents to provide them with access to emergency care and basic hygiene items — showers, toothbrushes and blankets for sleeping, for example. It forbade agents to separate children from their parents for extended periods of time.
At the center of the reform was a new position: an independent pediatrician who was assigned to visit the facilities and work with staff members to improve them. That monitor role is set to phase out even sooner than the overall agreement, on December 27.
Despite notable improvements, reports from the pediatrician — the so-called juvenile care monitor — showed that the conditions still sometimes fell short. Now, medical experts worry that, with the settlement expiring and the monitoring role set to disappear, conditions could worsen under an administration far less friendly to immigrants.😟 https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/health/migrant-children-health-monitor.html
“Migrant Children Set to Lose Health Protections”
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| As a registered nurse, I know from my clinical experience how these traumatized children will forever be emotionally harmed by this terrible "caging" experience. Americans can surely do better by providing them with humane care and treat them like human beings. |
* (news article, Dec. 14) highlights a profound ethical lapse in the treatment of detained migrant children, who endure preventable illnesses and inadequate care. This systemic neglect not only endangers their well-being but also undermines the core principles of justice and humanity.
Children, regardless of their citizenship status, deserve access to basic health care. Denying such care to those in custody violates both moral and legal standards. Immediate steps are necessary: Increase funding for medical services, enforce stricter oversight of detention facilities and ensure accountability for the humane treatment of these children.
As a nation committed to human rights, we must uphold our responsibilities to the most vulnerable among us. Failing to do so reflects a disregard for the values we claim to represent.
From Jia Ulama in Farmington, Minnesota
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| United Nations’ human rights chief said she is “appalled” by the conditions migrants and refugees face in U.S. detention facilities, intensifying a challenge to the Trump administration’s immigration policies. |
The system, part of a July 2022, legal settlement between the government and lawyers representing migrant children in custody, set detailed protocols for detaining minors at Customs and Border Protection facilities in the Rio Grande Valley and El Paso sectors.
It required agents to provide them with access to emergency care and basic hygiene items — showers, toothbrushes and blankets for sleeping, for example. It forbade agents to separate children from their parents for extended periods of time.
At the center of the reform was a new position: an independent pediatrician who was assigned to visit the facilities and work with staff members to improve them. That monitor role is set to phase out even sooner than the overall agreement, on December 27.
Despite notable improvements, reports from the pediatrician — the so-called juvenile care monitor — showed that the conditions still sometimes fell short. Now, medical experts worry that, with the settlement expiring and the monitoring role set to disappear, conditions could worsen under an administration far less friendly to immigrants.😟 https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/health/migrant-children-health-monitor.html
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