By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
Attorneys visiting a crowded Border Patrol facility in Texas made a startling discovery – a teenage girl in a wheelchair holding a tiny, prematurely born baby.
The lawyers said the baby, wrapped in a dirty towel and looking listless, was barely a month old, The Associated Press reports. The mother was in severe pain because of complications from an emergency cesarean section in Mexico.
“You look at this baby and there is no question that this baby should be in a tube with a heart monitor,” said Hope Frye, a volunteer with an immigrant advocacy group.
Since being in Border Patrol custody, the baby received no medical attention, the lawyers said.
The case sheds more light on the inhumane conditions that have been reported under the Trump administration by advocates and the Inspector General.
Since late last year, five children have died after being detained by the Border Patrol.
