{"id":18339,"date":"2024-12-13T11:16:56","date_gmt":"2024-12-13T12:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=18339"},"modified":"2024-12-13T12:23:44","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T12:23:44","slug":"health-protections-for-migrant-children-in-custody-are-set-to-expire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=18339","title":{"rendered":"Health Protections for Migrant Children in Custody Are Set to Expire"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A 2022 legal settlement established requirements to protect the health of minors detained at segments of the southern border. It ends nine days after Donald Trump takes office.<\/p>\n

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A court-ordered system for protecting the health of children detained at the southern border, put in place two years ago after several children died<\/a> in <\/span>custody, is set to expire nine days after Donald J. Trump takes office with plans to intensify the deportation of migrants.<\/p>\n

The system, part of a July 2022<\/a> legal settlement between the government and lawyers representing migrant children in custody, set detailed protocols for detaining minors at Customs and Border Protection facilities in the Rio Grande Valley and El Paso sectors. It required<\/a> agents to provide them with access to emergency care and basic hygiene items \u2014 showers, toothbrushes and blankets for sleeping, for example. It forbade agents to separate children from their parents for extended periods of time.<\/p>\n

At the center of the reform was a new position: an independent pediatrician who was assigned to visit the facilities and work with staff members to improve them. That monitor role is set to phase out even sooner than the overall agreement, on Dec. 27.<\/p>\n

Despite notable improvements, reports from the pediatrician \u2014 the so-called juvenile care monitor \u2014 showed that the conditions still sometimes fell short. Now, medical experts worry that, with the settlement expiring and the monitoring role set to disappear, conditions could worsen under an administration far less friendly to immigrants.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThis is not a bureaucratic shift \u2014 this should be everyone\u2019s concern,\u201d said Marsha Griffin, a pediatrician practicing on the southwest border who has visited the facilities. \u201cThis is a law enforcement agency with a law enforcement mentality, tasked with running a trauma-informed day care center. You just feel like screaming. Someone needs to watch them.\u201d<\/p>\n

A spokeswoman for Customs and Border Protection said that the agency had undertaken \u201cextensive measures\u201d in the past two years to \u201csignificantly expand and enhance its support efforts\u201d for all people in custody \u2014 and particularly for children. She said the agency developed trauma-informed behavioral health training for employees, for example, and worked to better integrate pediatricians into the medical care process for minors in custody. It also issued a formal policy<\/a> to define when agents could separate children from their parents.<\/p>\n

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A 2022 legal settlement established requirements to protect the health of minors detained at segments of the southern border. It ends nine days after Donald Trump takes office.A court-ordered system for protecting the health of children detained at the southern border, put in place two years ago after several children died in custody, is set to expire nine days after Donald J. Trump takes office with plans to intensify the deportation of migrants.The system, part of a July 2022 legal settlement between the government and lawyers representing migrant children in custody, set detailed protocols for detaining minors at Customs and Border Protection facilities in the Rio Grande Valley and El Paso sectors. It required agents to provide them with access to emergency care and basic hygiene items \u2014 showers, toothbrushes and blankets for sleeping, for example. It forbade agents to separate children from their parents for extended periods of time.At the center of the reform was a new position: an independent pediatrician who was assigned to visit the facilities and work with staff members to improve them. That monitor role is set to phase out even sooner than the overall agreement, on Dec. 27.Despite notable improvements, reports from the pediatrician \u2014 the so-called juvenile care monitor \u2014 showed that the conditions still sometimes fell short. Now, medical experts worry that, with the settlement expiring and the monitoring role set to disappear, conditions could worsen under an administration far less friendly to immigrants.\u201cThis is not a bureaucratic shift \u2014 this should be everyone\u2019s concern,\u201d said Marsha Griffin, a pediatrician practicing on the southwest border who has visited the facilities. \u201cThis is a law enforcement agency with a law enforcement mentality, tasked with running a trauma-informed day care center. You just feel like screaming. Someone needs to watch them.\u201dA spokeswoman for Customs and Border Protection said that the agency had undertaken \u201cextensive measures\u201d in the past two years to \u201csignificantly expand and enhance its support efforts\u201d for all people in custody \u2014 and particularly for children. She said the agency developed trauma-informed behavioral health training for employees, for example, and worked to better integrate pediatricians into the medical care process for minors in custody. It also issued a formal policy to define when agents could separate children from their parents.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18341,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18339"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18342,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18339\/revisions\/18342"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}