On the recordJuly 23, 2018
It is still going on. The Trump administration is still holding thousands of little children in jails across this country in cages, cyclone fencing, cages. These are babies and toddlers, preschoolers and adolescents. Their only crime is their desire to breathe free. And just when you think the pit of the Trump administration's soul could get no darker, heartbreaking reports emerge from inside these so- called detention facilities. These children are prohibited from touching one another. No hugs, not even from their siblings. They can't run around. They have to wake up at unreasonably early hours, with their jailers banging and making noise as if it is Alcatraz, for everyone to get out of bed. Some of these children only get 1 hour to play outside a day. They are being held in strip malls and abandoned motels. Some are banned from sending mail to their siblings. Others have scrubbed toilets or handled bags of unsanitary used toilet paper. Mr. Speaker, these so-called detention facilities are nothing more than jails for children, baby jails. Let's end this madness. ____________________
