And then what we saw over the subsequent months was a growing humanitarian crisis as people were fleeing their homeland and arriving in our community. There was a lot of trauma associated with that, because This is the site of family separation. This is where those babies first got separated from their families. We were, unfortunately, the testing ground. We were also the site of some of the most inhumane holding cond that we have seen in our generation by the American government. (05:28–05:32)
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