A heartbreaking Twitter thread by Attorney Elizabeth C. McLaughlin has revealed the atrocities committed against refugees who are being detained at the border and the extent to which the Trump administration is willing to go to cover up their crimes. The thread revealed the dire living conditions that refugees have to endure and the kind of torture that the Trump administration even puts babies through.

Elizabeth C. McLaughlin said she learned of the horrific living conditions from a friend who had done two tours as a legal advocate inside Border Patrol facilities. She said that the Trump administration was violating every basic human right and was looking to cover up its crimes by moving refugees to military installations where they can’t be questioned by anybody, hiding behind the notion of national security.

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She explains that the "dog pound" to which refugees have been moved is "deathly hot" by day and "freezing" at night. She said one of her friends saw a baby so sick she "thought it would be dead by morning".

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She goes on to detail how refugees are moved from the "dog pound" to "the freezer" where it is 55 degrees. Critically ill people, the disabled, sick children and even teenage mothers with babies were kept in the freezer for weeks at a time.

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Elizabeth said the refugees were supposed to be moved to ICE facilities that have beds, food, and bathrooms, but the Trump administration was deliberately keeping them empty and moving them to military installations.

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McLaughlin said the concentration camps would fall under the control of Department of Defense and thus enable the Trump administration to deny access to media, lawyers and human rights activists, unlike ICE facilities where everyone is given access to refugees.

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McLaughlin said if that were to happen, then Trump administration would be able to do whatever they wished to refugees without the rest of the world being aware of it. She wrote, Think about what that means. Think about why they would want that. This is happening RIGHT NOW.

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She said the Trump adminstration was already committing atrocities at the CBP facilities and it could get worse without any supervision or media attention. She said the refugees were already dehumanised by the Border Patrol agents who are now referring to people as "bodies". Yes, you heard that right: BODIES!

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What is coming is crimes against humanity, warned McLaughlin. If we do nothing, there will be blood on our hands.

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McLaughlin said the only way to put an end to it was by removing Trump from power. She ends the heartbreaking thread by urging everyone to "look reality in the face" and "fight like human life depends on it".

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