On the day after the 2016 presidential election, a group of pediatricians arrived at the Customs and Border Protection processing center here. Their host was Marsha Griffin, MD, a pediatrician who practices in this border town and is co-chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Immigrant Health Special Interest Group.
Griffin had been at work with two fellow AAP members on a policy statement for the academy calling on the government to stop separating families who've been apprehended after crossing the border and, moreover, to stop detaining children altogether. In preparation for the release of that statement, Griffin had urged the AAP's leadership to come witness what these families are experiencing.
The contingent included the AAP's then-sitting president, Benard Dreyer, MD, and incoming president, Fernando Stein, MD, and several members of the special interest group, as well as leaders of the Texas Pediatric Society. The doctors had traveled down the previous August intending to tour the processing center, but at the last minute were denied access.
[For more of this story, written by Taylor Sisk, go to https://www.medpagetoday.com/p...eralpediatrics/72084]
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