5/31/2023 0 Comments Pope Patrick by Peter de Rosa![]() Children grow depressed and lose weight, and moms who fled violence in their home countries live in fear and despair. Two large new family detention facilities were built in Texas to supplement one in Pennsylvania, and the number of beds exploded from 100 to an expected 3,700.Īt the facilities, moms and children, often young, are detained with little access to the outside world and scant opportunity to plead their case, the bishops’ report said. Immigrant activists and religious leaders have raised growing alarms about conditions at immigrant detention centers since the Southern border crisis last summer brought tens of thousands of unaccompanied youths and families to the U.S., primarily fleeing gang violence in Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala. ![]() “All of this is something that is close to his heart and I’m sure he will say something about it,” DiMarzio said.Ī spokeswoman for the Homeland Security Department did not immediately respond to requests to comment on the bishops’ findings and recommendations. ![]()
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