Undocumented immigrant mothers and children are kept in excessively cold conditions, given undercooked food and mocked by guards in a detention facility in Artesia, New Mexico, an attorney alleged after a visit there.
"The unnecessary cruelty is astounding to me," immigration attorney Danielle Rosche said Monday on SiriusXM Progress' "The Agenda with Ari Rabin-Havt." "And that I live in a country where this is happening is incredibly upsetting."
The temporary facility for families apprehended by border patrol was opened earlier this year, following a large increase in illegal border crossings by mothers with children and unaccompanied minors. The Department of Homeland Security is attempting to deport recent border-crossers as quickly as possible, but lawyers have traveled to the facility to take on the women's cases.
Rosche, who visited the facility from late August to early September and spoke to more than 30 women, said she heard a number of disturbing stories.
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