Migrant boy describes 11 days of hunger at Yuma's border station

Abner said he gave food to younger migrant kids so they wouldn't go hungry. [View in browser]( [Image]( JULY 19, 2019 Abner, a 17-year-old Guatemalan boy, [vividly recalls]( the first 48 hours he spent inside the U.S. Border Patrol station in Yuma, Arizona. He was awake for all of them because there was no space to lie down. Packed into a cell with other migrant boys, Abner said the older children would give the 8, 9, and 10-year-olds space to lie down on the floor while they would try to sleep sitting or standing up. With nothing to cover him, Abner would tremble. "I had to stay almost two days like this, standing. I didn't sleep. And they didn't treat me well because I would ask for at least food or water or something to cover myself with and they would deny it," Abner told NBC News in Spanish. In total Abner spent 11 days from late May to early June in the Yuma border station. He describes them as filled with hunger and thirst, extreme temperatures and fear of the guards manning the facility. They refused to give him food when he asked, mocked him if he asked what time it was, and, on one occasion, punched another boy in the stomach, Abner said. [Watch Julia Ainsley's interview with Abner]( [Image]( The Trump administration [moved to broadly expand]( its ability to quickly deport undocumented immigrants anywhere in the United States who cannot prove they have been in the country continuously for two years or more. The Department of Homeland Security will publish a notice in the Federal Register on Tuesday, set to be effective immediately, aiming to expand “expedited removal,” which would allow authorities to detain and deport immigrants more quickly without a hearing before an immigration judge. A unpublished version of the notice was released by DHS on Monday. 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