**TRO Declarations, 51.
(Indeterminate gender)**

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I am 7 years old.
I am from El Salvador.
I came with my aunt and her female cousin.
They are both big.

We came because there were people
who wanted to hurt us.
There were people who had eyes on me
whenever I went to school.
My Aunt, her cousin, and I looked for Border Patrol
after we walked into the United States.
We found them right away and they told us to get into a
car with the people we had come with.

From there they took me to a tent
where it was very cold
and there were no blankets.
My Aunt, her cousin, and I slept on the ground in the tent.
We spent the night there.
I woke up in the very early morning.
It was still dark outside.
I was scared because my aunt was not there next to me anymore.
My Aunt's cousin told me she wasn't there anymore because
she was preganant and the baby was on the way.
I started to cry.
Someone called my name and ab hour later they took me to where my aunt was.
She was sitting in a normal chair and was not connected to anything.
I was very, very scared, but it was a relief to see her.

I was there with my aunt in a small room for just a little while.
Then we were both taken outside.
An officer told me to get into a car.
My aunt was standing outside the car.
Theyt old me she was not coming with me.
I wanted to go back to where my aunt's cousin was,
but they would not let me.
When I went to go see my aunt, I did not know
that they would not bring me back.
I felt like they had tricked me.
A lady officer brought me here, to the Clint Border Patrol station.
Today is the fourth day that I have been here.

I am in room 203 with between 10 and 20 others.
on some days a nurse comes and brings two combs for everyone to share.
One is a lice comb, and the other is a normal hairbrush.
They leave the combs with the children in the room for about 15 or 20 minutes.
Then someone comes back and tells us to give them back the lice comb and the hairbrush.

Yesterday after lunch a nurse brought the lice comb and hairbrush.
A little while later a guard came back and asked for the lice comb and hairbrush.
He was bald and had a light complexion.
When the guard asked for the lice comb and hairbrush, we did not know wher they were.
We looked at each other to see who had the combs.
The guard was angry and asked in a rough voice who had the brushes.
The other kids were scared and so was I.
I felt dizzy and started to cry.
He said we had ten minutes to look for the combs, and if we could not find them
We were going to be without beds and without covers.
He gave us ten minutes. All of us were panicked.

WE looked under the bed.
Kids asked each other if they had seen the brushes.

He came back and yelled at us, asking if we had found the combs.
We had to tell him that we couldn't find them.
When we told him, officers came into the room and started taking everything away.
They took pillows and blankets.
We had a blanket that we were using to hold up
in front of the bathroom because there is not a door.
The offficer took even that one.
He said we were going to sleep in the floor.
He said it was punishment for losing the combs.

What he said was true. We all slept on the hard tile floor last night.
Nobody tried to climb into a bed because the guard said that they were
Going to take away anybody who tried to get into the bed.
They told us that we could not have blankets anymore.

I asked to call my dad, who lives in Washington, DC.
An officer took me out into the hallway to call my dad.
I told my dad what happened.
My dad asked to speak to someone who works in the place where I am being held.
I passed the phone to a man officer, but cannot remember what the officer said to my dad.