Customs and Border Protection will not distribute flu shots to detained children or adults and has yet to respond to medical professionals’ concerns.
More than two dozen immigrants, including children, have died in U.S. government custody since President Donald Trump took office.
The judicial branch has had to force Trump’s administration to provide basic hygiene tools like toothpaste to detained migrant children.
Now, his immigration officials are saying they will not act to prevent influenza from spreading in their cramped, overcrowded immigration jails at the U.S.-Mexico border.
View the complete August 21 article by Alan Pyke on the ThinkProgress website here.