Children as young as 13 are ‘trapped’ in a state with no access to abortion, lawyers and advocates say
Donald Trump’s administration is concentrating all pregnant children being held in federal immigration enforcement custody into one group shelter in south Texas, a state where abortion is outlawed with no exceptions for survivors of rape or incest.
Since last summer, more than a dozen pregnant minors, some as young as 13 years old, have been moved to a facility in San Benito along the U.S.-Mexico border, according to a joint investigation by The Texas Newsroom and The California Newsroom, citing sources within the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) within the Department of Health and Human Services.
The agency is responsible for children who entered the United States without a parent or legal guardian or who were separated from their families by immigration authorities.
After the Civil War we simply let the old slave masters go. We let them keep their other properties and wealth, and they came roaring back with the Klan. It took several more generations and the Civil Rights movement to dislodge them from power, a few faced trial, but the vast majority were never publicly unmasked. They just took off their hoods, put on suits, and went back to work in Congress.
USAmericans have defeated them before, but it never sticks. They keep coming back because we keep letting them get away with it.