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A migrant child was returned to his mother covered in lice
Key Excerpts from Article on Website of MSN
Posted: July 9th, 2018
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/a-migrant-child-was-return...
One of the children separated from his parents at the US-Mexico border was returned months later with lice, looking as if he hadnt been bathed in weeks, and with irrevocable changes to his personality ... according to documents filed in a lawsuit against the Trump administration. The lawsuit, from 17 states and the District of Columbia, calls for an end to Trumps zero tolerance immigration policy and demands the administration reunite all families that were separated at the border. One mother, Olivia Caceres, alleged that she was separated from her son in November at a legal point entry ... and wasnt with him for 12 weeks. When he was returned to her custody, Caceress son was infested with lice and appeared as though he had not been bathed for the entirety of their separation. "[My son] is not the same since we were reunited. I thought that, because he is so young he would not be traumatized by this experience, but he does not separate from me. He cries when he does not see me. That behavior is not normal. The stories about what happens to children who are reunited with their families are playing out as still hundreds more kids remain separated from their parents. On June 26, HHS was given a deadline to reunite children under the age of 5 to their families within 14 days and all children within 30 days. HHS Secretary Alex Azar ... admitted that they dont know which of the nearly 3,000 migrant children in HHSs custody have been separated from their parents.
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