Article 760P7 ‘Where are all the kids?’: questions arise over treatment of pregnant minors in Texas ICE facility

‘Where are all the kids?’: questions arise over treatment of pregnant minors in Texas ICE facility

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Melody Schreiber
from US news | The Guardian on (#760P7)

The Trump administration may be deporting the US citizen infants born to unaccompanied girls formerly held at the San Benito ICE facility

Representative Maxine Dexter has a lot of questions. Why were all of the pregnant, unaccompanied minors in the US rounded up and sent to San Benito, a tiny town on the Texas border with Mexico? Are they given appropriate medical care, given their high-risk conditions and Texas's abortion ban? And most importantly: where are the girls - and their infants - now?

Dexter, a Democratic congresswoman from Oregon and a former critical care physician - one of the few doctors now serving in Congress - detailed these questions in an 8 May letter to refugee and health officials after visiting the San Benito facility and, she said, being blocked from speaking with any of the children. She still hasn't gotten answers.

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