Mother says baby taken from her while breast-feeding at Texas immigration detention center
A breast-feeding baby was taken from her mother’s arms at a Texas detention center and the mother was handcuffed for resisting, the woman’s attorney says.
.. The attorney, Natalia Cornelio, told CNN the woman from Honduras sobbed Tuesday as she recounted how her daughter was taken from her. The mother is awaiting prosecution for entering the United States illegally.
.. about 500 children have been separated from their parents
.. Some parents are being told, ” ‘We’re going to separate your kids so they can bathe.’ And that’s not true,” Nogueras said.
A spokeswoman for the Justice Department’s Southern District of Texas declined to comment about how many children had been separated from their parents or the how they were separated.