The article titled, “Migrant Children Share Heartbreaking Stories of What It’s Like to Be Locked in U.S. Detention Centers: ‘There Are No Activities, Only Crying’” by Chantal Da Silva, talks about how kids in cages have given their statements about how life is living in metal cages. These kids in metal cages as forced to sleep cold sometimes with wet clothes and nothing more than a Mylar blanket. They are given little amounts of food, water, and basic sanitation. These kids are laughed at when they cry after being separated from their parents and forced to take care of one another. Teen parents struggle to keep their babies healthy and warm, having no access to clean clothes and diapers. Due to lack of safety care towards these kids, there have been legal action filed for the: Center of Human Rights & Constitutional Law (CHRCL) and other organizations. If nothing is done then the kids who are sick could end up dead under the watch of the Trump administration. The CHRCL sent Newsweek statements taken directly from kids kept in those facilities. One of these kids, a 16-year-old girl says that in one of those metal changes there are 20 other teenagers with babies and young children. She also spoke about how they had to sleep on floor mats in which they had to share with others. Another 12-year-old boy says that he is always hungry, he gets hungry at 4 a.m. and other times but is too scared to ask the officials for more food when there is not enough. These are just two of many stamens that this article includes. Other details that this article includes are how the lawyers went to visit the U.S detention facilities and how “heart-wrenching”. There are kids there who go days without bathing, which explains the stench that struck them.

“They told us that we could only have one layer of clothing, and they threw away the rest of our clothes in the garbage. -From a 16-year-old boy”

  • In a place where it gets cold and does not supply kids with clean clothes, they do not have the right to do this. This just goes to show how heartless the people at the facilities can be towards these innocent kids.

“I was given a blanket and a mattress, but then, at 3:00 a.m., the guards took the blanket and mattress. My baby was left sleeping on the floor. In fact, almost every night, the guards wake us at 3 a.m. and take away our sleeping mattresses and blankets. They leave babies, even little babies of two or three months, sleeping on the cold floor. For me, because I am so pregnant, sleeping on the floor is very painful for my back and hips. I think the guards act this way to punish us.” -17-year-old girl

  • This is horrible because they are taking away mattresses and blankets from these kids and babies and making them sleep on the floor. Those babies sleeping on the floor could die because of how cold those places can get. This is the kind of treatment that is given to animals where they sleep on the floor. These kids especially these babies that are only a few months old need to sleep in a warm bed and not on a cold hard floor.