https://www.elle.com/culture/career...ren-separated-from-parents-us-border-stories/
Antar Davidson, who quit his position as a youth care worker at a shelter in Arizona this week, told the Los Angeles Times his coworkers told him to pass on a message to three Brazilian children: “Tell them they can’t hug.” The children were told their parents were “lost,” and they thought that meant dead, so they were “huddled together, tears streaming down their faces,” Davidson said.
Davidson also told the Los Angeles Times some children at the shelter were screaming, throwing furniture, running away, and even attempting suicide. Records reportedly showed several children were being monitored for being at risk of self-harm.
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According to the LA Times the Texas Civil Rights Project and public defenders have recalled several cases of parents who say they were told their kids were going to get a bath at a processing center, only to never be reunited with their parents.
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The Washington Post reports that on May 13, Marco Antonio Muñoz died by apparent suicide in a Texas jail. He had been separated from his wife and child after migrating from Honduras. An anonymous Border Patrol agent told the newspaper Muñoz suffered a mental breakdown after being separated from his family, becoming visibly agitated. After his death, his wife and son were released from Border Patrol custody, but it's unclear where they are now.
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Michelle Brane, director of migrant rights at the Women’s Refugee Commission, told The Associated Press she met a 16-year-old girl at the Ursula facility in South Texas who had to teach other kids to change a young girl’s diaper; the teen had been taking care of the little girl, for three days. After a lawyer spoke up, the girl was reunited with her aunt. "She was so traumatized that she wasn't talking," Brane said. "She was just curled up in a little ball."
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