I Worked at a Child Migrant Center. What I Was Told to Do Was So Inhumane That I Quit.

I Worked at a Child Migrant Center. What I Was Told to Do Was So Inhumane That I Quit.

Antar Davidson, Mother Jones (June 20, 2018)

Antar Davidson is a former employee at Southwest Key, a nonprofit chain of migrant shelters, who recently made headlines for talking about the cruel conditions at the facilities. Davidson started working at a Tucson, Arizona, center in February, two months before President Trump’s zero-tolerance policy was instituted. He quit his job earlier this month, after a supervisor ordered him to separate hugging siblings who believed their parents had died. Here Davidson tells Mother Jones, in his own words, about helping migrant children through martial arts, the changes since Trump’s zero-tolerance policy, and why he ultimately could not stay at his job.

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