When Sevier asked the 38 children she examined about sanitation, all replied they were not permitted to wash their hands or brush their teeth.
The Office of the Inspector General released images showing asylum seekers-many women and children-stuffed into overcrowded cages, lying on cement floors.
One cage has stuffed into it 88 men in a space for 41.
One of the photos clearly shows a man in one of these cells holding a sign reading, "HELP. 40 DAY HERE."
NBC News reported:
"The investigators for the DHS Office of the Inspector General toured five Border Patrol facilities and two ports of entry in the Rio Grande Valley sector during the week of June 10 and published their report as a 'management alert' to the department on Tuesday.
"The Rio Grande Valley of Texas has the highest volume of immigrants along the United States-Mexico border. At the time of the visits by investigators, Border Patrol was holding 8,000 detainees in custody, with 3,400 being held longer than the 72-hour limit.
"The report also detailed what it called 'security incidents' in which immigrants have tried to escape and once refused to return to their cells after being removed during maintenance. To address the problem, Border Patrol called in its special operations force to demonstrate it was prepared to use force if necessary."
According to legal affidavits filed April 23, 2018 in U.S. District Court in California, refugee children in U.S. custody were being injected with psychotropic drugs that inflict dizziness, lethargy, and sometimes incapacitation.
The Trump administration has detained more than 40,000 children so far this year, a 57- percent increase from last year.
At this rate, we will surpass 2016's record figures of 59,171.
No matter how we look at it, we have become "that country."
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