Article 3SGSS Meet the Migrant Child Detention Center Whistleblower Speaking Out Against Family Separations

Meet the Migrant Child Detention Center Whistleblower Speaking Out Against Family Separations

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A youth care worker who quit his job at a Tucson detention center for unaccompanied minors is speaking out about inadequate facilities, untrained staff and inhumane policies, after witnessing the devastation of family separations firsthand. Antar Davidson says he quit after he was forced to tell children who were separated from their mother not to hug one another. The facility is run by Southwest Key, a nonprofit that operates 27 facilities and has signed a lease to detain hundreds of separated children, including many who are a younger than 12 years old, in a "baby jail" in a former warehouse and homeless shelter in Houston. For more, we speak with Antar Davidson.

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