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Showing Original Post only (View all)Rachel's crying! She can't report this story. [View all]
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Now it's on Lawrence.
The govt. is operating 3 "tender age" shelters with hundreds of babies and toddlers in South Texas.
Reporters have not been allowed to take photographs or speak to any children.
Lawrence is saying Trump is "arresting babies" because Mexico is refusing to pay for the wall.
Here's the story that was breaking while she was reporting:
https://apnews.com/dc0c9a5134d14862ba7c7ad9a811160e
During a press briefing Tuesday, reporters repeatedly asked for an age breakdown of the children who have been taken. Officials from both law enforcement and Health and Human Services said they didnt know how many children were under 5, under 2, or even so little theyre non-verbal.
The facilities that they have for the most part are not licensed for tender age children, said Michelle Brane, director of migrant rights at the Womens Refugee Commission, who met with a 4-year-old girl in diapers in a McAllen warehouse where Border Patrol temporarily holds migrant families. There is no model for how you house tons of little children in cots institutionally in our country. We dont do orphanages, our child welfare has recognized that is an inappropriate setting for little children.
So now, the government has to try to hire more caregivers.