Mothers and Children in Detention
Channel: NOWCastSA
Date: 2015-06-12

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Since 2014, women and their children who fled violent and murderous gangs in Central America have been jailed by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, in the 608-bed facility in Karnes City, Texas and a 2,500-bed facility in Dilley, Texas. ICE pays private companies more than $40 million a year to operate the facilities that were built to hold immigrants.On camera, women from El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala spoke about their months of imprisonment at Karnes with their children and hundreds of other families. In their statements, they confirm earlier reports of illnesses within the facility, as well as concerns of suicide among mothers. Mothers organized two hunger strikes that lasted from seven to 10 days, and describe how they were threatened with losing their children, or deportation and punished with solitary confinement for participating in the protest. The mothers describe how they were misled and mistreated.


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