the press to visit the facilities to document it for themselves. okay. boris sanchez reporting for us. thank you. with us now to discuss is national reporter for the washington post wesley lowry, and the washington bureau chief for the chicago sun times lynn sweet. first your reaction to the detention centers and the awful conditions we re hearing that exist there. well, first and foremost it s obvious the new york times isn t working with any partisan parties. journalists have been doing amazing work trying to document what s been going on at the border. the reporting itself is pretty stunning in terms of the conditions folks are facing in terms of the disease and the lack of availability to resources. and i think it s important as journalists we continue to push for access to spaces. these are detention centers being run in our collective names and no matter what s happening in the centers, we need sunlight and we need to see what s going on inside of them. i think the reportin
the detained migrants. and i just want to list some of the examples. again, from government watchdogs and their own report. children under age 7 held for more than two weeks waiting for transfer in this facility where they have lights never off. no beds. no cots. concrete floors. lack of hot meals inadequate or no access to showers. limited change of clothes. as a pediatrician, can you explain the dangers both short-term and long-term to a child enduring these conditions? so short-term we worry about things like infection. we worry that a child might be mildly ill and will become severely ill in these facilities. but long-term, you have this toxic stress, these chemicals of fight or flight hormones that stay high in the children and keep their brains from developing social-emotional bonds and from developing learning and can result in long-term physical health and mental health consequences
including post-traumatic stress disorder. i know you were trying to urge customs and border patrol to let you or other members of the american academy of pediatrics go down there and help train some of the medical staff that are working at these facilities. what is the status of your conversations with them? so at this point we re really still trying to work with them, and have the training video that s part of the training of the people who are already working there, and are doing the best that they can. however, it s not enough. and we have come out very publicly and said until we have pediatricians training on site with the staff and until we re able to monitor the conditions and be able to make a change on the ground so the children don t stay in these conditions, our message is the same. we need to do better by these children. i know it s a complex situation. and i don t want to ask too simple of a question. i wonder if there is one thing you could change right now to care f
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some of these detention centers because to the press, i want the press to go in and see them. and i just spoke to mr. morgan and as you know kevin, so we re going to send people in. we re going to have some of the press go in. they re crowded, and we re the ones that were complaining act they re crowded. so far reporters have only been granted very sporadic and limited access to the facilities and never with cameras. which facilities and to which extent the cameras will see inside. all we have now is the one off the cuff comment from president trump. also today the president accusing the new york times of exaggerating the description of conditions inside one texas migrant facility. the one in clint, texas. this is the reporting from that new york times article. outbreaks of scabies, shingles and chickenpox were spreading among the hundreds of children