Texas News Why Children Keep Getting Sick At Detention, Processing Centers KWBU | By Bonnie Petrie Published May 30, 2019 at 11:04 AM CDT Twitter LinkedIn Email Listen • 2:48 Associated Press An asylum-seeking boy from Central America runs down a hallway of a shelter in San Diego after arriving from an immigration detention center on Dec. 11, 2018. Experts say when parents are detained or deported, the children's trauma can last a long time. “I’m a pediatrician, and I care for sick children all the time, and I would never suggest, in healing, a child return to a cold concrete floor, covered by a silver, mylar blanket which is really more of a sheet, to heal from their illness, and certainly not in a setting where they’re exposed to constant stress.”