Immigrant Kids Are Forcibly Medicated At Shelters, Suit Says

By Suzanne Monyak · June 21, 2018, 4:34 PM EDT

Migrant children detained in a Texas youth facility are regularly placed on psychotropic medications without their parents' consent and are forcibly sedated and physically abused by staff, according to affidavits filed...

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Documents

Affidavits

Case Information

Case Title

Jenny L Flores v. Edwin Meese

Case Number

Court

California Central

Nature of Suit

Deportation

Date Filed

July 11, 1985

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