Food contaminated with worms and mold, limited access to clean drinking water,

in adequate medical care.

These are a few of the allegations made by migrant families in recent court documents

about their children's conditions while in ICE custody.

As part of this administration's crackdown on immigration, President Trump has restored the practice of family detention with more

than 1,700 children in custody since family detention centers reopened this past spring.

Becky Wallazen is a senior lawyer with the National Center for Youth Law and joins us now.

Thanks for being here.

Thanks so much for having me.

President Trump says the border is effectively closed.

If that's the case, how are

these children and families still ending up in custody? Who are they? So we've seen a lot of

different trends happen since they first opened family, reopened family detention in April.

But now a lot of families are being arrested from the interior of the United States.

So these are your neighbors, your friends, your kids' friends who are being picked up in a lot of different ways, really from across the country.

And you've been inside the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley where families are being held.

Your organization has sued the federal government alleging inadequate food,

medical care, education, and safety.

What were the most striking examples you witnessed that illustrate those failures?

Well, there are really profound problems with basic needs like food and water. So we have seen and heard a lot of things

about children not getting child friendly food, not being able to eat, what's offered. As you mentioned,

people reported vegetables that were moldy or had worms in them, people have gotten sick following

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