A new lawsuit filed by immigrant rights attorneys asks the courts to order the immediate inspection of inhumane conditions at detention centers
, filed on Wednesday by the Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law, asks a judge to order the immediate inspection by public health officials of Border Patrol detention centers in El Paso, Texas, and the Rio Grande Valley, to provide the children with basic necessities — like a nutritious diet — and medical care, and to require that the CBP immediately start processing the children for release to parents and relatives, as required by the 1997According to the suit, children at detention...
The suit also outlines an inadequate access to clean drinking water. Often the only available water tastes like chlorine or bleach and is not potable. Dr. Lucio Sevier, a physician who visited the facilities, said that nursing mothers reported drinking only 1.
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