After weeks in family detention, a toddler named #Amalia was sent to a San Antonio hospital with critically low oxygen levels. She spent more than a week in intensive care, where she and her mother were watched by ICE agents. After being discharged from the hospital, the toddler was sent back to the place where she had nearly died: the #Dilley Immigration Processing Center, where many children had severe respiratory illnesses. #Usapolitics ⁠
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The Trump Administration has, in effect, directed immigration enforcement against kids. The harm to children is particularly clear in the revival and expansion of family detention at Dilley, where Amalia and more than 5,000 other children and parents have been held during the past year. A recent report by Human Rights First and RAICES—two major nonprofits working on immigrants’ rights—documents widespread medical neglect of children, including infants, in the care of CoreCivic, the private contractor that operates Dilley, which reported more than $2 billion in total revenue last year. (D.H.S. said that all detainees receive due process and proper medical treatment.) At the link in our bio, Sarah Stillman investigates the cruel conditions at the center and speaks with families who have had to confront medical crises while being repeatedly denied adequate treatment. Photographs by Carlos Jaramillo (@_carlosjaramillo_) for The New Yorker; third photograph by Brenda Bazán / AP. Follow @newyorkermag for more.⁠
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