Footage, audio, and photos from inside a children’s detention center in New York show a child crying and asking to speak with her mother and an employee ominously warning children that speaking to the press could endanger their immigration case.
A former employee of a facility in New York shared the material with “The Rachel Maddow Show” on MSNBC a week after quitting her job in protest of the Trump administration’s forcible separation of families.
In one clip, the employee speaks to a young girl named Jessica about her mother, who she says has been sent to Virginia and who she hasn’t spoken with in at least a week, and says she will try to connect the two.
Employees are instructed to keep their distance from the children in their care, according to the whistleblower, but she told MSNBC that toward the end of her time at the center she flouted the rule.
“We’re not allowed to hug the kids. We’re not allowed to touch them at all. I decided not to follow that rule this week. This week I hugged them. I don’t care anymore,” she said, according to Maddow.
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The woman quit her job after realizing the center was holding children who had been taken away from their parents, when a huge influx of younger children arrived at the facility in recent weeks.
“I am here today because I feel like it’s important to make a difference,” the whistleblower said. “I feel that it’s time for everybody to stand up and stop being afraid and actually help these children being separated from their parents.”
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