separated kid has been terrified. i want to discuss this now with professor warren benford and dr. julie linton. so good to have both of you on. thank you so much. professor benford, i m going to start with you. you detail these dangerous and neglectful conditions happening at the u.s. border facilities. this was back in june. i want to read some of the excerpts from this report. it says some separated children expressed acute grief that caused them to cry inconsolably. others who believe their parents had abandoned them were angry and confused. a 7 or 8-year-old boy was separated from his father without any explanation as to why the separation occurred. the child was under the delusion that his father had been killed and believed that he would also be killed. much of this is consistent with what you saw, right? yes, and it wasn t just on the june visits that we saw this. we actually had previously interviewed separated children, and they told us horrific
children project? yes. next week we ll be launching project amplify, and the intent is to educate the public about the children s experiences in these facilities. as dr. linton has explained, not just the separation of the children from their parents is traumatic for them, but being kept in facilities in which they re being accused and neglected layers adds another layer of trauma to their experience. and so we have asked for actors, artists, songwriters, musicians, theater performers all across the country to come together and organize events that can share these children s stories with the public. and so we have people from los angeles to portland to chicago and new york all organizing events in the coming months in order to share these children s stories because we want to make sure that the american public knows what this administration is doing to these kids because it s causing long-term damage. warren binford, julie linton, thank you for your time. i appreciate it. thank
quickly than adults. they require more fluid for their weight. we dose medications based on the weight of a child where an adult has a standard dose. we have expertise in detecting the differences between a child who is well and a child who has a minor illness and a child who has a serious illness. if we don t urgently change the process we have at the border with pediatric expertise, i can anticipate there will be more deaths to come. dr. julie linton, thank you very much for joining us tonight. really appreciate it. when we come back, senator mazie hirono who visited the institutio institutions locking up people at the southern border will join me next. at the southern border n me next.
joining our discussion is pediatrician dr. julie linton who is co-chair of the american academy of immediate ticks immigrant help special interest group. doctor, what should we know about children held in these kinds of conditions? what we know is that there is no amount of time in detention that is safe for children and the conditions under which they are held, cage-like fencing, extending from the floor to the ceiling, lights kept on 24-7 that are incredibly disorienting for children, children lying on mats on concrete floor with nothing but a crinkly blanket to cover them, threaten the short and long-term health of children. what about the medical care? how much is the gap between the medical personnel they need and the medical personnel they have? my colleagues on the border last week, including dr. goza
justification of any kind for doing so as people await asylum hearings. i want to bring in dr. julie linton, a pediatrician and spokeswoman for the american academy of pediatrics. doctor, thanks for taking the time for us on your sunday afternoon or evening. you know, we re showing these images, kids being held in cages. other children in processing centers or detention centers away from their parents. we re hearing the stories of children being taken from parents. parents being told that the kids are just going to the bathroom. how do you even begin to measure sorry. i m going to have to come back to this question. we have a live press conference happening right now at the border. these are the senators who have been just inside brownsville, texas, telling us what they saw. they are not with their parents. the vast bulk of these children, we re told, arrived on the border unaccompanied, as unaccompanied but a certain share of them came with their parents and then were