Border Babies — Medical Ethics and Human Rights in Immigrant Detention Centers
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
7-22-2020
ISSN
0028-4793
Publisher
Massachusetts Medical Society
Language
en-US
Abstract
Providing decent medical care for families in U.S. detention centers near the Mexican border has become exceedingly difficult over the past 2 years. Trauma was inflicted on migrants to deter others from attempting to enter the United States. A cornerstone of deterrence was the “zero tolerance” policy that forcibly separated children from their parents at the border. Photographs of children confined in cages horrified Americans, who demanded that the policy be rescinded. It was, but family separations continue and have been made even worse by the Migrant Protection Protocol (MPP) — which the U.S. Supreme Court will most likely review later this year — under which asylum seekers and their children are returned to Mexico to wait in makeshift camps for their applications to be reviewed. This practice has created yet another humanitarian crisis.
Recommended Citation
Sondra S. Crosby & George J. Annas,
Border Babies — Medical Ethics and Human Rights in Immigrant Detention Centers
,
in
383
The New England Journal of Medicine
297
(2020).
Available at:
https://doi.org/DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp2003050
