top of page

4 Days in Clint

Sun, Oct 06

|

The Oregon Jewish Museum

Join us for this firsthand account of what Willamette Law professor and international children’s rights expert Warren Binford discovered when she and her colleagues walked into the Clint Border Patrol Facility on a routine monitoring visit outside of El Paso, Texas, in June 2019.

Registration is Closed
See other events
4 Days in Clint
4 Days in Clint

Time & Location

Oct 06, 2019, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM

The Oregon Jewish Museum , 724 NW Davis St, Portland, OR 97209, USA

About the event

Join us for this firsthand account of what Willamette Law professor and international children’s rights expert Warren Binford discovered when she and her colleagues walked into the Clint Border Patrol Facility on a routine monitoring visit outside of El Paso, Texas, in June 2019. Over the course of four days and through interviews involving approximately 70 children, the team came to realize that hundreds of children were being unlawfully warehoused by the U.S. government in a state of filth, hunger, sickness, and sadness, without any meaningful adult care. Some children reported being assaulted by the Border Patrol while many reported being forced to sleep on concrete floors, including infants and toddlers, in overcrowded jail cells, a loading dock, and a windowless warehouse. Binford explains what had changed in their observations about the government’s treatment of the children in its care that compelled them to go to the media for the first time in 22 years of Flores monitoring visits. Binford lays out the legal framework that applies to migrant children in custody, highlighting both the legal violations, as well as the loopholes that need to be closed to ensure the humane treatment of children, and -- importantly -- how the average U.S. citizen can take action. Binford’s discussion includes powerful direct quotations from the children’s sworn declarations to ensure that their voices and stories are heard and amplified by the American public.

Share this event

Project Amplify is a 501c3 nonprofit corporation. Lawyer Moms Foundation is its fiscal sponsor. All donations to Project Amplify are tax-deductible.   

bottom of page