NYC Hospitals Are Treating Children Separated From Parents at Border for Mental Illness
Source: Slate
The Trump administration used the welfare of other peoples children as a deterrent, a bargaining chip in an immigration policy debate, and there has been a real cost in human terms. The psychological and health damage done by forcibly separating children from their parents is clear. And now that the country is paying attention to the conduct of its government on the border, were starting to see the damage that has been inflicted by this policy. The head of public hospitals and clinics in New York City on Thursday announced the citys facilities have treated 12 children over the past couple of weeks separated from their parents at the border for a range of physical and mental illnesses, including one child that was suicidal.
Health and Hospitals CEO Mitchell Katz addressed the issue in an open letter Thursday, as well as the distraught physicians, social workers, and other health care providers in our health system that are seeing first-hand the serious health impact to children of immigrants.
After separation, some of these children have ended up in our Emergency Departments accompanied by their government-appointed guardians who are often unfamiliar with the children, have no access to medical records, and have no way of getting in touch with a family member to get a medical history. We have seen children as young as five and have treated teenagers who have presented with signs of anxiety, trauma, and stress-related illness, including one extreme case of a teen with suicidal ideations after being separated from his mother. We know the health risks associated with tearing apart children from their families are very real, including an increased risk of anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress, and attention-deficit disorder. And the demand on health care professionals in NYC and across our country will undoubtedly continue to grow.
Read more: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/06/nyc-hospitals-are-treating-children-separated-from-parents-at-border-for-mental-illness.html
dreamland
(964 posts)They'll just start sedating the kids into a drug problem. This is going to grow into an epidemic.
bdamomma
(63,836 posts)just want these kids to kill themselves because that is what they are advocating for. Crimes against humanity.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Trump would prefer to kill them himself.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)now identified to NY city, and presumably county and state, social services. Many good people in and out of government are already taking some actions and planning others.
Hillary's up there and has already raised a reported $1.5 million to help the families caught up in this atrocity. She's also identified for us 10 organizations fighting our current immigration policies we can help fight this through.
We can be heartbroken about what's happening at the border, but we shouldnt feel hopeless.
Make a donation to support the groups working to protect the kids and families separated by ICE:
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project
Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project
Human Rights First
Kids in Need of Defense (KIND)
La Union del Pueblo Entero (LUPE)
Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services (RAICES)
United We Dream Action
We Belong Together
Womens Refugee Commission
Your donation will be split among the groups listed above, each of which is doing critical work to support and protect these families
https://secure.actblue.com/donate/families-border?refcode=hrctw
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)So his efforts to identify the kids are being thwarted. Trump is doing everything he can to hold on to his hostages.
So, NO, for the most part these kids have not been found.
Roy Rolling
(6,911 posts)Reports like this only beg for a response from political idiots like the POTUS who will say, "See. They're sending us kids with mental illness".
orangecrush
(19,537 posts)Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)disgusting