Women At Karnes Immigration Facility Are Sexually Assaulted Before Kids

Women who have been held in the Karnes County Residential Center in Karnes City, Texas, face endless assault and attack. In the building that is called a "holding center" for immigrants without records. The women are raped endlessly by the male guards.

Worryingly, the guards can open the detainees' cells at any time of the day or night, and can enter and abuse them, according to countercurrentnews.com.

It is indeed "an environment of rape and harassment," in which the women are forced to perform some "sexual favors" so that they can be given fundamental necessities called "favors" in return.

Most of the detainees are Central Americans sent with their children to the centre after they are caught crossing over illegally at the Texas border, the lawyers said, according to mysanantonio.com.

On the other hand, Geo Group Inc., which runs the prison for the undocumented immigrants, called their prison "family friendly" and denied that there were any such violations. On the contrary, they were seen to be offering a "safe, clean, and family-friendly environment" for the families that waited for the processing by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, said the Geo Group's vice president of corporate relations, Pablo Paez.

Adding that the center's care giving was of good quality, the corporation declared that it has a "zero-tolerance policy" for sexual harassment, with the centre taking care to be within all the laws. Charges of immoral conduct are probed and dealt with appropriately, adds the corporation.

Hence, the corporation declines to deal with the abusers, even though there are attorneys from multiple firms who are trying to fight on behalf of the women victims who repeat the stories of being raped every night by the guards. The detainees complain that the guards are not prevented from assaulting the women, even in the presence of their children, who are locked up in the prisons as well.

Although the Department of Homeland Security's Office of Civil Rights can take major steps to stop the abuse, they seem to have washed their hands off too.