A 2-year-old living in a cage, cared for by two strangers, just girls themselves with the oldest being 15. The toddler, who wasn’t wearing a diaper and had snot smeared on his shirt, just wanted to be held all the time.
A 4-year-old had matted hair because the 8-year-old caring for her couldn’t convince her to take a shower. Five migrant children have died in custody. Many of the children are sleeping on concrete floors.
A Justice Department lawyer argued before an appeals court last week that those concrete floors are safe and sanitary. This is the same lawyer who argued before incredulous judges — one who had spent time in a Japanese internment camp in Arizona as a child — that the children being imprisoned didn’t need soap or toothpaste.