Since July, more than a dozen pregnant children have been moved to a single facility in the small town of San Benito, along the south Texas border. The children kept in Texas are as young as 13, and about half are pregnant because of rape, according to a joint investigation by the Texas Newsroom and the California Newsroom. In Texas, abortion is banned in nearly all circumstances, including rape and incest.

“It’s a choice to ensure zero abortions,” said Jonathan White, a former top official working with children’s programs in the ORR under the Obama and Trump administrations. When a pregnant child is moved to Texas, “as long as she is in Texas, she can’t access an abortion – without a federal official needing to deny her an abortion”, he said.

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The “total disregard” for the rights of pregnant and nursing detainees is a “dramatic violation” of international law and public health practices ensuring consensual medical treatment, said Diana Romero, professor and director of the Center on Immigrant, Refugee and Global Health at the CUNY graduate school of public health.

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[–] thoughtfuldragon@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I thought the point was to avoid the so called "anchor babies".

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is that what pedophiles like Trump and Epstein call their preferred victims?

[–] thoughtfuldragon@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 month ago

It's a racist term used to describe children born in the US to immigrant mothers. The children are US citizens and have the right to be in the United States. It's cruel to separate a child from its mother so the mother (in the past) was allowed to stay too. Now they can just deport US citizens so I guess the cruelty of forcing a child to give birth after being raped wins out.