On Tuesday, an employee at an Arizona detention site for immigrant children forcibly separated from their parents

was arrested and charged with sexually abusing a 14-year-old detainee.

On Wednesday, the internet burned with the report, yet unconfirmed, that a child recently released from a Dilley, Texas ice facility, had died due to medical neglect.

The backdrop for this was sent a testimony from a Health and Human Services official Jonathan White here in an exchange with Senator Richard Blumenthal.

Well, it's traumatic for any child separated from his or her parents. Am I

correct? I say that as a parent of four children. There's no question. There's no question that

separation of children from parents entails significant potential for traumatic psychological

injury to the child. Separating families, in other words, with trauma of forethought.

Yet in the same Senate hearing, ICE official Matthew Albentz characterized the government

imprisonment of immigrant children very differently.

We have officers in these facilities and a daily basis. I think the best way to describe them is to be more like a summer camp.

Minus canoeing and hiking and visiting day. But we're left to take Albin's at his Pollyanna

word. The public is largely prevented from seeing those detention sites firsthand or even getting

timely information on who was being held, much less the

ability to question detainees about their treatment. Enter the press, also known as the

enemy of the people. This summer, various sinister agents of journalism conspired to seek

information about children separated from their parents.

In a project designed by ProPublica,

10 news organizations are sharing information to flesh out the hidden details.

Among them, the network Univision.

Out of the 30 cases they got information to follow up on, four children were reconnected with their parents after the publication of their stories.

One story saw a Salvadoran mother reunited with her six-year-old daughter who had been sent to Pennsylvania.

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