Washington D.C., Mar 2, 2018 / 19:20 pm
After the Supreme Court rejected the idea that detained immigrants are entitled to periodic bond hearings, a Catholic immigration lawyer warned that detention centers take a toll on those who spend long periods of time there.
"I was just recently in a facility in South Texas where they were detaining children and families and it was an old Walmart that had been converted into a jail like facility," said Michelle Saenz-Rodriguez, who serves on the Dallas bishop's Immigration Task Force.
The detention facility has a "bathroom in the middle of the room. You don't have any privacy, which really makes people feel that...they don't have any dignity," Saenz-Rodriguez told CNA.
"A lot of people are depressed...they have suffered violence in their country and now they really need treatment," she continued.