In Harm’s Way
Reveal
The Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX
4.7 • 8.7K Ratings
🗓️ 20 July 2019
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
The federal government is quietly expanding its use of “tender age” shelters for migrant kids. We’ll tell you what we know. Then, we revisit a story from Alaska and the Pacific Northwest, looking at how Jesuit priests got away with sexually abusing children.
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| 0:00.0 | From the Center for Investigative Reporting in PRX, this is Reveal. I'm Al Edson. |
| 0:12.6 | A year after the practice of family separation was supposed to have ended, very young children |
| 0:18.3 | are still being taken away from their parents after crossing the U.S. Mexico border. |
| 0:23.5 | In the last few weeks, we've gotten more details about conditions inside facilities holding |
| 0:27.8 | migrant children and adults. Doctors and attorneys say hundreds of young people are living under |
| 0:32.8 | inhumane conditions at a Texas border control station. |
| 0:35.9 | Federal inspectors observe serious overcrowding and prolonged attention at five locations |
| 0:41.3 | of the week. |
| 0:42.3 | Outbreaks of scabies, shingles, and chickenpox spreading among the hundreds of children |
| 0:45.9 | being held in cramped cells. |
| 0:49.0 | Advocates who visited children at border facilities last month spoke publicly about flu quarantines, |
| 0:55.7 | vice infestations, and babies drinking milk out of dirty bottles. |
| 1:00.8 | Many of the children had not had access to a single shower or bath. They were wearing |
| 1:06.1 | the same dirty clothing that they crossed the border with. |
| 1:09.9 | Customs and border protections own policies say, migrant youth cannot be held at border |
| 1:14.9 | patrol facilities for more than 72 hours. But advocates say they've spoken to kids who |
| 1:20.4 | have been held for weeks at a time. |
| 1:22.9 | Many of them had been detained for days on end for weeks on end some yearly a month. |
| 1:28.0 | So where do the kids go after they leave these places? |
| 1:31.3 | Reveals out of agado has been investigating and she found that there are babies, some |
| 1:36.3 | as young as three months old, being held at shelters without their mothers. |
| 1:41.4 | Hey, out of. |
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