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US child migrants suffer sexual abuse

The period 2014-2018 saw detained migrant children alleging that they suffered sexual abuse during their detention. The Trump administration's "zero tolerance" immigration policy caused thousands of immigrant children to be separated from their families. The US health department and the Department of Justice received about 4500 and 1303 of such complaints, respectively. Jonathan White, the deputy director for children's program's at Health and Human Services' (HHS) Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), gave a testimony that the allegations were against personnel who were contracted by HHS to oversee the migrant detention facilities and not against HHS staff. With some of the complaints including "allegations that children were forcibly strapped to chairs, molested, and denied sufficient medical care" Mr Deutch admitted that "It was our responsibility, this administration's responsibility, to keep these children safe 2026 but we failed."