Tag: Michelle Brane

One cage had 20 children inside. She said she had to show others in her cell how to change the girl’s diaper. On Sunday, the US Border Patrol allowed reporters to briefly visit the facility where it holds families arrested at the southern border, responding to new criticism and protests over the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy and resulting separation of families. More than 1,100 people were inside the large, dark facility that was divided into separate wings for unaccompanied children, adults on their own and mothers and fathers with children. Those kids inside who have been separated from their parents are already being traumatized Senator Jeff Merkley Church groups and human rights advocates have sharply criticized the policy, calling it inhumane. “Those kids inside who have been separated from their parents are already being traumatized,” said the Democratic senator Jeff Merkley, of Oregon, who was denied entry earlier this month to children’s shelter. Padilla said agents in the Rio Grande Valley have allowed families with children under the age of five to stay together in most cases. Michelle Brane, the director of migrant rights at the Women’s Refugee Commission, met a 16-year-old girl who had been taking care of a young girl for three days. It turned out that the girl was actually four. “The government is literally taking kids away from their parents and leaving them in inappropriate conditions,” Brane said.