The original content of Democracy Now! Headlines appears under the Creative
Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0 License (United States). For more, including their other
shows and media, visit www.democracynow.org.
July 29, 2021

Whistleblowers: Migrant Children Are Being Mistreated at Fort Bliss
-------------------------------------------------------------------

Two whistleblowers have warned Congress about the dire conditions at the
Fort Bliss military base in El Paso, Texas, where the government has set
up large tents to hold thousands of unaccompanied migrant children. The
whistleblowers say children are held in filthy conditions without
adequate mental and health care. In a statement, one of the
whistleblowers, Arthur Pearlstein, said, "Gross mismanagement, waste,
and abuse of authority by those at the top who insisted on utmost
secrecy led to conditions for thousands of children at Fort Bliss that
can only be described as constituting mistreatment." Pearlstein is a
director at the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service.


.