Trump Administration Agrees To Independent Investigation Of Health Conditions For Children At Border Facilities
The Trump administration has agreed to allow a Stanford University pediatrician to conduct an independent investigation into health conditions for migrant children at US Customs and Border Protection facilities.
The pediatrician, Dr. Paul Wise, toured detention centers at the border last summer and was critical of the conditions there, according to a Stanford publication.
In that interview, Wise described how migrant children are kept in a “kind of cage-like” processing center.
“From there, they get moved to a different processing center, which is kind of cage-like, and labeled the ‘perrera,’ the dog pound,” he said in the September 17, 2018 article. “And that’s the photographs you saw of kids in cages.”
“One major concern was that the infrastructure of health care for children and their families coming through the asylum process is woefully inadequate,” he added.
Under the agreement, arranged as part of a lawsuit against the government in federal court, Wise will be able to conduct inspection of CBP facilities and assess children in the agency’s care. US District Judge Dolly Gee authorized Wise’s appointment on Monday, according to court documents.
Advocates for children applauded the appointment of an independent investigation into what has been called deplorable and dangerous conditions for children in detention.
