EP: 30 - Trauma and the Inhumane Treatment of Migrants

On the last day of minority mental health month, we discuss the collective traumatic impact of Trump’s inhumane treatment of migrant families on the border. Disruption Now is joined by Dr. Maria Espinola, a licensed clinical psychologist and assistant professor of clinical psychiatry at the University of Cincinnati and Professor Bert Lockwood of the renowned Urban Morgan Institute for Human Rights, at the University of Cincinnati College of Law. What do you think about Trump’s policies of migrant families?

Show Notes

Zero Tolerance Trump
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/20/cost-us-immigrant-detention-trump-zero-tolerance-tents-cages.html

24 immigrants have died in ICE custody during the Trump Administration:
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/24-immigrants-have-died-ice-custody-during-trump-administration-n1015291

1224 complaints reveal a staggering pattern of sexual abuse in immigration detention. Half of those accused worked for ICE.
https://theintercept.com/2018/04/11/immigration-detention-sexual-abuse-ice-dhs/

Yazmin Juarez Mother of Maria Juarez discussing how her daughter died in custody on Mothers Day

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/guatemalan-asylum-seeker-testifies-about-daughter%E2%80%99s-death-in-ice-custody/vi-AAE8KgN

The United Nations Rights Chief stated that she was “appalled”by U.S. border detention conditions. She said that detaining migrant children may constitute cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, which is prohibited under international law: 

https://news.un.org/en/story/2019/07/1041991

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