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The Kids Facing Medical Neglect in ICE Detention

The New Yorker · USA · Documentary · 2 min · 5K views

A toddler nearly dies of a respiratory illness in family detention, and is then sent back to the Texas facility where many children have fallen seriously ill.

A brief, sobering report on what immigration detention does to children's health.

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 age

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