‘Where are all the kids?’: questions arise over treatment of pregnant minors in Texas immigration facility

The Trump administration may be deporting the US citizen infants born to unaccompanied girls formerly held at the San Benito facility Representative Maxine Dexter has a lot of questions. Why were all of the pregnant, unaccompanied minors in the US rounded up and sent to San Benito, a tiny town on the Texas border with Mexico? Are they given appropriate medical care, given their high-risk conditions and Texas’s abortion ban? And most importantly: where are the girls – and their infants – now? Dexter, a Democratic congresswoman from Oregon and a former critical care physician – one of the few doctors now serving in Congress – detailed these questions in an 8 May letter to refugee and health officials after visiting the Urban Strategies San Benito ORR facility and, she said, being blocked from speaking with any of the children. She still hasn’t gotten answers. In the US, the treatment of immigration detainees has raised concern over rights violations, overcrowding and a lack of medical care – situations that are not transparent even to members of Congress. Senator Andy Kim, a Democrat from New Jersey, says he was sprayed with pepper balls on Monday outside the US Immigra