'They treated us as though we were animals': Letters from inside an immigration detention facility

[DonViejo]

'They treated us as though we were animals': Letters from inside an immigration detention facility

By Emanuella Grinberg and Jamiel Lynch, CNN

Updated 10:35 PM ET, Tue July 3, 2018

(CNN)In the letter, she calls the facility "la perrera" -- the kennel or dog pound -- because of the chain-link cages she and others were held in.

For eight days after she was captured near the US-Mexico border, she says she did not bathe or brush her teeth. She and other women slept on the floor under "aluminum paper" blankets, she says.

"They treated us so horribly, as though we were animals," she wrote in the letter, in which she called herself "anonimo," anonymous.

But worst of all was not knowing the fate of her daughter or son for 21 days after they were taken from her, she wrote.



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[Hugin]

1. It's time to get down to some real letters from real combatants...

Yeah, the SCW letters were fun, but, now we must step away from the electric twitter machine and attend to the plight of the oppressed.