There has been a lot of outrage over how DoJ Lawyer Sarah Fabian has been saying that children in detention do not need mattress, or soap, or toothbrushes or real blankets in detention facilities kept so cold that they are nicknamed “Refrigerators”.<\/p>\n
Well, it turns out that she’s done worse things.<\/p>\n
In particular, she argued for putting children in solitary confinement under the Obama administration<\/a>:<\/p>\n \u2026\u2026\u2026 <\/span><\/p>\n The United States\u2019s loathsome argument\u2014that it is \u201csafe and sanitary\u201d to confine children without soap, toothbrushes, dry clothes, and on concrete under bright lights\u2014is morally indefensible. It\u2019s also a spectacularly foolish argument to raise in the famously liberal Ninth Circuit, where the United States should have expected exactly the reception that it got. And even though the litigation began under the Obama administration, it was the Trump administration that elected to bring this appeal and ask the court to bless these inhumane conditions as \u201csafe and sanitary.\u201d That\u2019s an extremely aggressive legal argument, and one that suggests that the disturbing conditions being reported at confinement centers are intentional, not a sign of mere neglect.<\/p>\n It is right and fit to condemn the Trump administration for its argument and its treatment of children. But it\u2019s wrong to think the problem can be cured with a presidential election. Trump will depart; the problem will not depart with him. This administration is merely the latest one to subject immigrant children to abusive conditions. It\u2019s been 35 years since Jenny Flores was strip-searched in an adult facility. Before Sarah Fabian defended concrete floors and bright lights for President Donald Trump, she defended putting kids in solitary confinement for President Barack Obama.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Remember, the UN has defined solitary confinement as torture, and the DoJ, and ICE, and CBP asked the courts to allow them to torture children with solitary confinement in 2015<\/a>:<\/p>\n