Claudia Flores on NPR's Weekend Edition on Migrant Abuse Report
ACLU Report Alleges Government Abuse Of Migrants
GARCIA-NAVARRO: The abuse this report details took place from 2009 to 2014 under the Obama administration. The ACLU filed a Freedom of Information Act request. It received 30,000 internal documents. And you and your students reviewed a group of them. Can you tell me the findings?
FLORES: Sure. The documents were a combination of complaints filed by children and also documentation from the investigations conducted by CRCL, the Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. Essentially, what we found were patterns of abuse as reflected in the complaints and what appeared to be ineffective efforts to resolve these complaints and to conduct investigations.
GARCIA-NAVARRO: Can you give me an example?
FLORES: Sure. There were a number of examples of physical abuse, children being punched in the head, kicked in the ribs, stun guns used on them, patrol vehicles running over children, verbal abuse, denial of medical attention to pregnant minors and some sexual abuse of girls by border patrol officers and ineffective sanitation in the cells and in the conditions the children were held.
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