These are harrowing first-hand accounts from children in custody based on interviews from attorneys in the camps. Every American should read them and demand we close the camps immediately. The truth is right here: It's up to us to listen. #CloseTheCamps
Exclusive from @jacobsoboroff and @JuliaEAinsley Child migrants are entitled to a free lawyer when they claim asylum in the U.S. Without a lawyer, even infants could be placed in front of immigration judges to make their case for asylum on their own. https://t.co/t0IHStBZpd
Prof. Elora Mukherjee told @Lawrence on @MSNBC that the children she interviewed at the Clint, TX, migrant detention center were “dirty, hungry, sick, scared, and many of them had been detained for days on end, for weeks on end, some nearly a month.” https://t.co/0FSTLgiqw5
CBS News confirmed Monday that ~300 of the children at a Clint, Texas, CBP facility were moved to other sites; while appearing before Ninth Circuit judges, a DOJ attorney argued that in shorter stays in CBP custody, basic necessities might not be required https://t.co/QhO6v1OXD6
Researchers examined 4.4 million tweets posted in response to 21 different mass shooting events. They found significant differences in the language used by Republicans and Democrats. https://t.co/H6ymjtyhLv
In a @CBP immigrant processing center in McAllen, Texas, an attorney tells us "basic hygiene just doesn't exist." She said the water is “so bad that the mothers would save any bottled water they could get and use that to mix the baby formula.” https://t.co/iDMtwMitm4
In her 12 years of inspecting government detention facilities where children are held, Elora Mukherjee says that the center in in Clint, Texas is the worst she's ever seen. "There is a stench," said Mukherjee, a @ColumbiaLaw professor. https://t.co/3o8MOylJlf
Lawyers who visited a border detention center in Texas tell AP they saw a sick 2-year-old migrant boy not wearing a diaper being watched over by older children. They say 250 children are held at the facility in poor conditions. https://t.co/lCHdesQ5sE
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A man fatally shot by an off-duty Los Angeles police officer on Friday at a Costco in Corona pushed the officer — but that does not justify the use of deadly force, an attorney representing his family said. https://t.co/74mFyUHgJR
With a team of experts @CUEpidemiology's Charles Branas developed questions calling for impartial studies to address as to why rates of #gunviolence injuries continue to rise.https://t.co/xrheRHtgMK
For the formerly incarcerated, the struggle doesn’t end after prison. Read about how @PrisonExpert Sue Ellen Ryan has found a novel way to show people what it’s really like to navigate the harsh realities of the parole system. Illustration: @saraarielwong. https://t.co/F4Kwbc8orP