‘Horrific’: report reveals abuse of pregnant women and children at US Ice facilities

The alleged abuses uncovered include deaths in custody, physical and sexual abuse of detainees, mistreatment of pregnant women and children, inadequate medical care, overcrowding and unsanitary living conditions, inadequate food and water, exposure to extreme temperatures, denial of access to attorneys, and child separation…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/06/physical-sexual-abuse-pregnant-women-children-immigration-centers?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Trump Administration Must Provide Basic Hygiene Supplies to Migrant Children - The Daily Beast: Court

After a Justice Department lawyer's argument against the requirement went viral....
https://www.thedailybeast.com/court-trump-administration-must-provide-basic-hygiene-supplies-to-migrant-children

Immigrant Children Sent to Chicago Shelters Are Traumatized and Sick, in Some Instances With Chicken Pox or Tuberculosis - ProPublica

Hundreds of children are being detained in shelters run by Heartland Human Care Services, which says it has made changes since allegations that children were neglected and mistreated.....
https://www.propublica.org/article/heartland-chicago-shelters-immigrant-children-sick-traumatized

U.N. human rights chief 'deeply shocked' by Trump's border detention centers - Daily Kos

Donald Trump's border detention camps are an international scandal, and the United Nations high commissioner for human rights is telling it like it is. "As a paediatrician, but also as a mother and a former head of State, I am deeply shocked that children are forced to sleep on the floor in overcrowded facilities, without access to adequate healthcare or food, and with poor sanitation conditions," said High Commissioner Michelle Bachelet, a former president of Chile...
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/7/8/1870242/-U-N-human-rights-chief-deeply-shocked-by-Trump-s-border-detention-centers

Conditions at Immigrant Detention Centers Are So Horrific, Agents Predicted Riots - Truthdig: Report

DHS knew how bad things were as far back as May—but did not act.
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/report-conditions-at-immigrant-detention-centers-are-so-horrific-agents-predicted-riots/

Chris McDonald Says Detained Immigrants Are Not Entitled to Soap or Toothpaste - RWW News

Right-wing commentator Chris McDonald declares that detained immigrant children are not entitled to things like soap or toothpaste because "God doesn't pander to the lawless." https://youtu.be/Ne3LxUeqxzQ

‘The Taliban gave me toothpaste’: Former captives contrast U.S. treatment of child migrants - The Washington Post

The federal government told a panel of Ninth Circuit appellate judges last week that U.S. border detention facilities are “safe and sanitary,” as required by law, even though migrant children are denied soap, toothbrushes and dark places to sleep. Judge William A. Fletcher called the position of Sarah Fabian, a senior attorney from the Office of Immigration Litigation, “inconceivable.”....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2019/06/25/taliban-gave-me-toothpaste-former-captives-contrast-us-treatment-child-migrants/

GOP rep: Children are free to leave migrant camps at 'any time' - The Hill

Rep. Michael Burgess (R-Texas) on Monday said that migrant children at a facility in Texas are "free to leave at any time" but don't because they are receiving good care.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/450160-gop-rep-children-are-free-to-leave-migrant-camps-at-any-time

Law prof says Trump created the chaos at the border through immigration crackdown

Law professor and child advocate Warren Binford visited a Border Patrol facility in Clint, Texas, where she saw migrant children held in deplorable conditions without adequate food, facilities or supervision. She says there's no doubt that the Trump administration's immigration policies are illegal. "Everywhere I look, this administration is breaking the law," she says. "The Border Patrol employees that we talked to say they don't understand why the American people aren't outraged by the mismanagement they are experiencing."
Interview:
https://youtu.be/TNnWaEeIodc

Fed up Fox host TRASHES Pence after he refuses to answer question

Fox News’ Shep Smith just trashed Mike Pence over the dismal conditions at the border facilities for migrants...
Interview:
https://youtu.be/retm4NzVJ9k

This Black Community Has Filed a Civil Rights Complaint Over Unsanitary Sewage Conditions - Mother Jones

The state of Alabama and one of its counties are facing a federal civil rights complaint with the Department of Health and Human Services over unsanitary sewage conditions that have been plaguing a historically black county for decades. ....
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2018/10/this-black-community-has-filed-a-civil-rights-complaint-over-unsanitary-sewage-conditions/