Despicable - Part 2

While Sarah Sanders repeats new GOP despicable - not to mention false - talking point that Dems want to kill babies after they're born...

ICE officers have released 12 of the infants that were being held at a rural Texas detention center, where immigrant advocates claim they dealt with dirty water, limited baby food and a lack of medical care. The release comes just days after immigration advocates called on the Department of Homeland Security to "intervene immediately."

In an email Monday, ICE said there were 16 infants younger than a year old held at the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas as of Friday, March 1. The status of the remaining four babies is unclear. ICE also said there was another infant under the age of one detained at the Texas Karnes detention center.

All the mothers and their infants were released to friends and family members.

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"Every mother I spoke to said that her child was sick in some way," Murdza said in a telephone interview Friday with CBS News. Murdza has worked with immigrants at Dilley for almost two years and had rarely seen infants at the detention center until last week. "It's just really hard seeing all of these very small babies in a detention setting."

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Many infants lost weight after arriving at the detention center because the Dilley facility has only one type of formula available, and it needs to be special requested, which caused delays in accessing it, said Murdza. Mothers weren't given bottled water to mix with the formula, forcing infants to drink the tap water, which she described as potentially unsafe. "Our staff doesn't even drink the water here," Murdza said. "It smells like chlorine."

  CBS

Unconscionable and unforgiveable.

They walked from South America and the babies lost weight when they got to the US. Give us your tired. Your hungry. We'll fucking lock 'em up and kill 'em.

ICE officials told CBS News via email that immigrants are offered "comprehensive medical care."

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"That's not corroborated by parents who spend time at Dilley," said Colleen Kraft, the immediate past president of the American Academy of Pediatrics.

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One eight-year-old boy with "boils all over him and a fever" was told to come back later, said Kraft, who just came back from a trip to Dilley. On the visit, Kraft identified 11 children who needed immediate medical attention, but had been told their issue wasn't an emergency and to come back later.

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In an email to CBS News, an ICE official said that the increase in detained infants was a result of increased border crossings. "As the number of family units crossing the border into the U.S. has increased, so too has the frequency of those with younger children, including infants," the official wrote.

Doctors who visited the babies in Dilley said that a detention center was no place for an infant.

Or any child.