ITT Sound Off: The Dark Side
In The Thick
Futuro Media
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 6 September 2019
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Maria and Julio are back in the studio to talk about a recent OIG report that establishes the detrimental mental health impacts of family separation and conditions in detention facilities on migrant children. They also discuss CNN’s climate crisis town hall with 2020 candidates, the devastation in the Bahamas following Hurricane Dorian, and an ongoing story from this week about ICE agents opening fire while attempting to apprehend a man near Nashville.
ITT Staff Picks
- Trump’s family separation policy amplified children’s trauma, via Roll Call
- 6 winners and 3 losers from CNN’s climate crisis town hall, via Vox
- Death and destruction stalk Bahamas in wake of Hurricane Dorian, via Al JazeeraFor information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Dear listener, a quick favor. We're conducting an audience survey and we'd be really |
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| 0:12.1 | ERX.org slash futuro to take our survey today. |
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| 0:23.0 | Grasias. |
| 0:25.0 | Hey what's up. |
| 0:29.0 | Welcome to In The Thick. |
| 0:30.0 | I'm Marianne Hossar. |
| 0:32.0 | And I'm Julio Rico-L-Barrella and this is I T sound off. |
| 0:37.4 | It's so good to be back in the studio, Julio. |
| 0:40.6 | Yeah, it's been a while. |
| 0:42.0 | Yes, it is. I'm happy to be in the studio with you. I'm so freaking depressed by what's happening in the country. Oh my God. Yeah. |
| 0:51.0 | Aye, yeah. So we're gonna jump into it, dear listener, and talk about some really challenging stuff that's going on, right? |
| 0:57.5 | Because what we know is that this Wednesday, the Office of the Inspector General at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services |
| 1:04.1 | published a report about how the mental health of children in HHS custody, these are |
| 1:11.3 | immigrant children, and how it's deteriorating, right? So this is what we have |
| 1:16.7 | already known. It's just being reconfirmed by the government that is actually doing this to the children to begin with, right? |
| 1:25.6 | The report says quote, policy changes in 2018 exacerbated these concerns as |
| 1:31.5 | they resulted in longer stays in ORR custody and a rapid |
| 1:36.1 | increase in the number of younger children, many of whom have been separated from |
| 1:40.8 | their parents after entering in the United States. |
| 1:44.0 | So, dear listeners know this, that at least three children have died over the last year from |
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