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Kids TakingCare of Kids at Texas Migrant Facility

Associated Press

   EL PASO, TEXAS - A 2-year-old boy locked in detention wants to be held
   all the time. A few girls, ages 10 to 15, say they've been doing their
   best to feed and soothe the clingy toddler who was handed to them by a
   guard days ago. Lawyers warn that kids are taking care of kids, and
   there's inadequate food, water and sanitation for the 250 infants,
   children and teens at the Border Patrol station.

   The bleak portrait emerged Thursday after a legal team interviewed 60
   children at the facility near El Paso that has become the latest place
   where attorneys say young migrants are describing neglect and
   mistreatment at the hands of the U.S. government.

   Data obtained by The Associated Press showed that on Wednesday there
   were three infants in the station, all with their teen mothers, along
   with a 1-year-old, two 2-year-olds and a 3-year-old. There are dozens
   more younger than 12. Fifteen have the flu, and 10 more are
   quarantined.

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