Federal worker: ‘We are traumatizing’ immigrant kids This article features our clients Laurie Elkins and Justin Mulaire and was originally published here. Immigrant rights groups lashed out at the Biden administration this week after a new whistleblower complaint from two volunteers at a shelter for illegal immigrant children said they’d seen tragic mismanagement and suffering [...]
ABUSES AT FORT BLISS CONFIRM CHILDREN SEEKING ASYLUM DON’T BELONG IN DETENTION This article features Government Accountability Project and was originally published here. Today, the #WelcomeWithDignity responded to the Government Accountability Project’s press release on whistleblower allegations of abuse at Fort Bliss. Eyewitnesses described a fire and water damage repair company with no experience of [...]
Whistleblowers: Unaccompanied minors being poorly cared for by inexperienced contractors at Fort Bliss This article features our clients Laurie Elkin and Justin Mulaire and was originally published here. The emergency influx shelter at Fort Bliss army base has been the subject of complaints of poor conditions for the unaccompanied minor migrants it houses. A whistleblower [...]
Whistleblowers Alleged Kids Mistreated by ServePro Contractors Hired to Oversee Detention Camp This article features Government Accountability Project and our clients Laurie Elkin and Justin Mulaire and was originally published here. Unaccompanied children held at an immigration detention camp in the Texas desert suffered substandard living conditions and mistreatment by contracted staff including employees of an [...]
Contractor hired to care for migrant children has no experience in child care, whistleblowers say This article features Government Accountability Project and our clients Laurie Elkin and Justin Mulaire and was originally published here. Contractors in charge of migrant children housed at a facility in Fort Bliss, Texas, were trained to assist with disaster recovery [...]
Whistleblowers detail poor hygiene for migrant kids at Texas site This article features our clients Laurie Elkin and Justin Mulaire and was originally published here. The Health and Human Services Department used a water-and-fire damage repair contractor with no training to supervise migrant children at a Texas emergency shelter, two whistleblowers stationed at the facility [...]
Whistleblowers allege poor care for migrant kids by contractor specializing in disaster cleanup This article features our clients Laurie Elkin and Justin Mulaire and was originally published here. WASHINGTON — Children housed in one of the Biden administration's largest shelters for unaccompanied migrant minors were being watched over by contractors with no Spanish-language skills or experience in [...]
#OurMothersToo: Reckoning With My Abuela’s Coerced Sterilization This article features our client Dawn Wooten and was originally published here. For as far back as my memory reaches, my grandmother, Obdulia Perez, had paper-thin skin with satiny wrinkles etched deep. She enjoyed bingo, cooking for her family and neighbors, writing poems in longhand, and reading the [...]
“Nothing is Changing”: ICE Sends Detainees to Irwin Prison Despite Pledges to Close It This article features our client Dawn Wooten and was originally published here. DESPITE AN ANNOUNCEMENT that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Irwin County Detention Center could be closed, people continue to be transferred into the detention facility, according to multiple sources interviewed [...]
Trusted Leaders Are Fighting COVID-19 Vaccine Fears in Black and Latino Communities This article features our client Dawn Wooten and was originally published here. Luz María Abonce arrived in San Jose more than 15 years ago. Over time, she’s been to graduations, quinceañeras, workshops and made dozens of friends throughout the eastern part of the [...]