About 50 children being housed at an intake center in Long Beach have tested positive for COVID-19, along with 14 more at the Pomona Fairplex.
What’s more, in a Kafka-esque twist, an agency caseworker asked the judge to make Rivera undergo a mental health assessment because of possible trauma involving the government separating him from the child and imprisoning him. Angelina Godoy, director of the Center for Human Rights at the University of Washington, found that recommendation exasperating.
“If they’re concerned about his trauma, why don’t they stop inflicting it upon him by returning his child?” asked Godoy, a UW professor of international studies.