re: #164 dangerman
Doctors warn of “irreparable harm” to children in Trump’s camps. https://t.co/7RGKpNDQzR pic.twitter.com/QvMXQcXYSj
— Steve Silberman (@stevesilberman) June 15, 2018
“Kids started appearing at the shelter who didn’t ‘know the drill.’ They had just been separated from their parents, so they were experiencing an increased amount of trauma,” says Antar Davidson, who worked for Southwest Key, a nonprofit that operates more than two dozen shelters for migrant children from Texas to California.
Davidson quit this week because the shelter where he worked in Tucson, Ariz., didn’t have the trained staffing to handle the influx of younger, more traumatized children, he says.
The breaking point for Davidson came, he says, when he was asked to tell two siblings, ages 6 and 10, that they couldn’t hug each other. “They called me over the radio. And they wanted to translate to these kids that the rule of the shelter is that they are not allowed to hug,” he says. “And these are kids that had just been separated from their mom — basically just huddling and hugging each other in a desperate attempt to remain together.” Southwest Key says it has a clear policy that allows touching and hugging in certain circumstances.