“Detaining children for immigration purposes is never in their best interest and the prospect of detaining kids in tent cities is horrifying,” Clara Long, U.S. researcher at Human Rights Watch, told McClatchy. “U.S. authorities should focus on keeping families together, ensuring due process in asylum adjudications, and protecting the rights of children.”

HHS, which is responsible for overseeing immigrant children, is examining military bases near El Paso, San Angelo, and Abilene, Texas to determine if 1,000 to 5,000 children could be held at the sites.

The Texas Civil Rights Project called the plan “despicable” in a tweet and recently demanded that the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) take action to end the separation of families.

“This administration has taken American exceptionalism to a whole new level: no developed democracy in the world systematically separates children from their parents simply for coming into the country,” said Efren Olivares, Racial and Economic Justice Director for the project, in a statement.

“There is a human rights catastrophe happening at our doorstep as a direct consequence of this administration’s callous disregard for families fleeing violence and death. …Toying with the lives of people fleeing violence to send a message is not only cruel, but also a violation of the international human rights and conventions to which the United States is a party,” Olivares continued.

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