The account of what happened to Amalia and other children appears in a report by The Marshall Project titled: “An Average of 25 Babies and Minors in ICE Custody Each Day.” Parents complain of poor conditions at the Texas detention center, where their children have been isolated and neglected when they fall ill. Furthermore, it is highly suspicious that ICE does not allow journalists to enter that detention center. Some 205,000 children have been separated from at least one parent due to ICE detentions and deportations, according to a Brookings Institution study. That said, I assume the cruelty he has directed at migrant children and the children of foreigners is intended to instill fear and send a “don’t come here” message to people in other countries.