Children. Little children, some alone, some with a parent, usually a mother, have been languishing, usually for months, in makeshift outdoor detention camps, sent there by the U.S. Border Patrol, which claimed that they were under no obligation to even feed them. The camps have been short on food, basic sanitation, and health care, dependent on volunteers to feed the detainees. And this is here in the United States.
In a hearing last week, U.S. District Judge Dolly Gee asked the government attorney whether they were free to leave. Deciding they were clearly under U.S. custody, she ruled on Wednesday that the children must be provided safe housing and care. Aid workers reported children with diarrhea, pregnant women without medical care, and people taking shelter inside portable toilets to stay warm on cold nights.
True, we have been overwhelmed by the numbers of young families fleeing violence, poverty, and the effects of the climate crisis, but perhaps we should take a look at how U.S. business practices in some of these countries have exacerbated the conditions people are fleeing.
Prayer for the Day
Fearing your face in the faces of those seeking protection,
We offer only reasoned hopes and measured faith;
Serving the spirit of timidity, we build shrines of isolation,
And shade possibilities offered us and others.
Turn us around to change our ways, Merciful One,
Transforming us into a people who show mercy to others.
In the name of the One who shows us how to be merciful,
Even Christ Jesus our Lord, Amen.
Thoughts for the Day
This is a tremendous victory for children at open air detention sites, but it remains a tragedy that a court had to direct the government to do what basic human decency and the law clearly require.
Neha Desai, National Center for Youth Law
It is shameful that CBP disavowed responsibility for the plight of these children for so long. We are gratified that the court recognized that children detained at open air detention sites are indeed in government custody and reaffirmed that children are entitled to safe and sanitary facilities where they will be given adequate food, water, shelter and medical care.
Leecia Welch, Deputy Director, Children’s Rights
What you have done to the least of these you have done to me
Children. Little children, some alone, some with a parent, usually a mother, have been languishing, usually for months, in makeshift outdoor detention camps, sent there by the U.S. Border Patrol, which claimed that they were under no obligation to even feed them. The camps have been short on food, basic sanitation, and health care, dependent on volunteers to feed the detainees. And this is here in the United States.
In a hearing last week, U.S. District Judge Dolly Gee asked the government attorney whether they were free to leave. Deciding they were clearly under U.S. custody, she ruled on Wednesday that the children must be provided safe housing and care. Aid workers reported children with diarrhea, pregnant women without medical care, and people taking shelter inside portable toilets to stay warm on cold nights.
True, we have been overwhelmed by the numbers of young families fleeing violence, poverty, and the effects of the climate crisis, but perhaps we should take a look at how U.S. business practices in some of these countries have exacerbated the conditions people are fleeing.
Prayer for the Day
Fearing your face in the faces of those seeking protection,
We offer only reasoned hopes and measured faith;
Serving the spirit of timidity, we build shrines of isolation,
And shade possibilities offered us and others.
Turn us around to change our ways, Merciful One,
Transforming us into a people who show mercy to others.
In the name of the One who shows us how to be merciful,
Even Christ Jesus our Lord, Amen.
Thoughts for the Day
This is a tremendous victory for children at open air detention sites, but it remains a tragedy that a court had to direct the government to do what basic human decency and the law clearly require.
Neha Desai, National Center for Youth Law
It is shameful that CBP disavowed responsibility for the plight of these children for so long. We are gratified that the court recognized that children detained at open air detention sites are indeed in government custody and reaffirmed that children are entitled to safe and sanitary facilities where they will be given adequate food, water, shelter and medical care.
Leecia Welch, Deputy Director, Children’s Rights
What you have done to the least of these you have done to me
Children. Little children, some alone, some with a parent, usually a mother, have been languishing, usually for months, in makeshift outdoor detention camps, sent there by the U.S. Border Patrol, which claimed that they were under no obligation to even feed them. The camps have been short on food, basic sanitation, and health care, dependent on volunteers to feed the detainees. And this is here in the United States.
In a hearing last week, U.S. District Judge Dolly Gee asked the government attorney whether they were free to leave. Deciding they were clearly under U.S. custody, she ruled on Wednesday that the children must be provided safe housing and care. Aid workers reported children with diarrhea, pregnant women without medical care, and people taking shelter inside portable toilets to stay warm on cold nights.
True, we have been overwhelmed by the numbers of young families fleeing violence, poverty, and the effects of the climate crisis, but perhaps we should take a look at how U.S. business practices in some of these countries have exacerbated the conditions people are fleeing.
Prayer for the Day
Fearing your face in the faces of those seeking protection,
We offer only reasoned hopes and measured faith;
Serving the spirit of timidity, we build shrines of isolation,
And shade possibilities offered us and others.
Turn us around to change our ways, Merciful One,
Transforming us into a people who show mercy to others.
In the name of the One who shows us how to be merciful,
Even Christ Jesus our Lord, Amen.
Thoughts for the Day
This is a tremendous victory for children at open air detention sites, but it remains a tragedy that a court had to direct the government to do what basic human decency and the law clearly require.
Neha Desai, National Center for Youth Law
It is shameful that CBP disavowed responsibility for the plight of these children for so long. We are gratified that the court recognized that children detained at open air detention sites are indeed in government custody and reaffirmed that children are entitled to safe and sanitary facilities where they will be given adequate food, water, shelter and medical care.
Leecia Welch, Deputy Director, Children’s Rights
What you have done to the least of these you have done to me
Children. Little children, some alone, some with a parent, usually a mother, have been languishing, usually for months, in makeshift outdoor detention camps, sent there by the U.S. Border Patrol, which claimed that they were under no obligation to even feed them. The camps have been short on food, basic sanitation, and health care, dependent on volunteers to feed the detainees. And this is here in the United States.
In a hearing last week, U.S. District Judge Dolly Gee asked the government attorney whether they were free to leave. Deciding they were clearly under U.S. custody, she ruled on Wednesday that the children must be provided safe housing and care. Aid workers reported children with diarrhea, pregnant women without medical care, and people taking shelter inside portable toilets to stay warm on cold nights.
True, we have been overwhelmed by the numbers of young families fleeing violence, poverty, and the effects of the climate crisis, but perhaps we should take a look at how U.S. business practices in some of these countries have exacerbated the conditions people are fleeing.
Prayer for the Day
Fearing your face in the faces of those seeking protection,
We offer only reasoned hopes and measured faith;
Serving the spirit of timidity, we build shrines of isolation,
And shade possibilities offered us and others.
Turn us around to change our ways, Merciful One,
Transforming us into a people who show mercy to others.
In the name of the One who shows us how to be merciful,
Even Christ Jesus our Lord, Amen.
Thoughts for the Day
This is a tremendous victory for children at open air detention sites, but it remains a tragedy that a court had to direct the government to do what basic human decency and the law clearly require.
Neha Desai, National Center for Youth Law
It is shameful that CBP disavowed responsibility for the plight of these children for so long. We are gratified that the court recognized that children detained at open air detention sites are indeed in government custody and reaffirmed that children are entitled to safe and sanitary facilities where they will be given adequate food, water, shelter and medical care.
Leecia Welch, Deputy Director, Children’s Rights
What you have done to the least of these you have done to me