The Trump Administration's 'Tender Age' Facilities Are Prisons for Babies and Toddlers
PoliticsThe Trump administration, its brutality truly limitless, is detaining babies and toddlers who have been forcibly removed from their parents at what are being called “tender age” facilities.
There are three such detention centers in South Texas, and the Associated Press reports that they have no policy around how young is too young for detention:
Even the policy surrounding what age to take away a baby is inconsistent. Customs and Border Protection field chiefs over all nine southwest border districts can use their discretion over how young is too young, officials said. And while Health and Human Services defines “tender age” typically as 12 and under, Customs and Border Protection has at times defined it as 5 and under.
This horror started after Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced a “zero-tolerance” policy in May, in which the administration would seek to prosecute 100 percent of adults crossing the border without authorization and forcibly separating children from their families. Since then, the government has taken 2,342 children from their families, the AP reports. Officials couldn’t tell reporters how many detained children were “under 5, under 2, or even so little they’re non-verbal” during Tuesday’s White House press briefing.