“There Is No One Here to Protect You”: Trauma Among Children Fleeing Violence in Central America

[TomSea]

From Relief Web:

“There Is No One Here to Protect You”: Trauma Among Children Fleeing Violence in Central America
from Physicians for Human Rights
Published on 10 Jun 2019 — View Original

Asylum-Seeking Children from Northern Triangle Suffer Multi-Dimensional, Recurrent, Sustained Trauma

Physicians for Human Rights report presents the first series of cases of child and adolescent asylum seekers in the United States; cites physical and sexual violence by gangs and family members in their home countries, as well as compounding trauma in transit to United States and in U.S. immigration detention

June 10, 2019

NEW YORK – Since 2014, the number of children arriving at the U.S. border has risen dramatically, as unaccompanied children, adolescents, and young families have fled gang and other forms of violence in the Northern Triangle countries of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. In a new report, “There Is No One Here to Protect You: Trauma Among Children Fleeing Violence in Central America (PHR) presents the first case series of child and adolescent asylum seekers arriving in the United States, detailing their trauma experiences and resulting negative health outcomes. The report demonstrates the acute physical and psychological impact of domestic, gang, and gender-based violence on these children, as well as the failure of authorities in their home countries to provide effective protection or to prosecute abusers. The findings in this report and the relevant legal standards demand an effective and humane policy response both in countries of origin, to prevent the violation of child rights, and in the United States, to fairly recognize claims of persecution and end practices that expose these young migrants to further trauma.

The report is based on forensic evaluations of 183 individuals age 18 or under conducted by PHR’s Asylum Network, a national network of expert volunteer clinicians who evaluate individual cases of physical and psychological trauma from torture or persecution experienced by asylum seekers involved in U.S. immigration proceedings. The report’s findings identify the features of an escalating child rights crisis, from persecution in countries of origin to compounding trauma experienced by the children while in transit and at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Read more at: https://reliefweb.int/report/united-states-america/there-no-one-here-protect-you-trauma-among-children-fleeing-violence

This is another thing, there surely are people who deserve asylum, so those who abuse the system, hurt those who might truly deserve it.

[Fishrrman]

I don't care HOW MUCH "trauma" against women, children, or anyone else exists south of the border.

It's THEIR problem.
NOT ours.

Build the wall.
Keep them ALL OUT !