**July 2018 Flores Declarations**

Female Narrator

My date of birth is December 3, 1979. My daughter is sixteen years old.
My daughter and I are from Honduras.

I left my country because my life had been threatened
and I had been held up at gunpoint three times.

We presented ourselves at the border about eight days ago.
We were taken to the Custom and Border Patrol Facility in McAllen Texas,
which we call the Ice Box.

The Ice Box was freezing,
and my daughter and I were shivering the entire time.
We were so cold that my daughter was miserable.

We were given food, but hte food was frozen and not fit for consumption.
It smelled so bad that we went hungry instead of eating it.
My daughter and I were hungry the entire time we were at the Ice Box.

We were given a mylar blanket but no mattress pad.

After about one day, my daughter and I were taken to another facility.
Known as the Dog House, where we held for four days.
We were immediately separated at the Dog House,
And stayed separated the entire time.
We were allowed to talk to each other only once
for ten minutes
in the three days we were there.

My daughter was very frightened and depressed the entire time.
She is still depressed and has nightmares and a lot of anxiety because of separation.

The female guards yelled at my daughter a lot
Called her names and made fun of her and the other children.
The female guards would not let her sleep and kicked her to keep her awake.
They also called the children filthy and told them
Not to throw anything on the floor the way they would at home in their country.
The female guards made my daughter and the other girls strip naked
in front of them and ogled the girls before their showers.
My daughter was scared of the guards because they were really angry all the time

The Dog House is even colder than the Ice Box and
my daughter and I were shivering the entire time.
My daughter was so cold that she had severe pain in her leg.
The guards told her that if she was hurt
She would have to stay in the Dog House longer
So she did not ask for medical care.
The guards also would not allow her to have an additional mylar blanket,
so she had to hide an extra blanket that someone who was leaving
gave her to try and warm up her leg.
We were not given mattress pads to sleep on.

The food at the Dog House was same as the Ice Box.
It was frozen and smelled bad.
We did not eat it and we went hungry the entire time we were there.

We did not have any toothpaste or a toothbrush the entire time we were at the Dog House.

The bathrooms at the Dog House were dirty and disgusting.
We were told to continue to use them and not make the bathrooms dirtier
Even though the toilets were already overflowing.

We were muddy and wet when we were apprehended,
But we were not allowed to shower or change for five days.

We were housed in dog cages
And my daughter was constantly moved without telling me.
This made me fearful for her safety
And further traumatized my daughter.

After four days we were moved to another Ice Box, where we were reunited
And whwere we stayed for one day.
We were not given food or water the entire day.

My daughter acted very different when we were reunited.
She was depressed and didn't talk much.

After one day we were moved to another Dog House that was different than the first.
We stayed at this Dog House for one day and night.
We were separated again immediately when we arrived at the second Dog House.

The second Dog House had the same gross food as the first.
Frozen sandwiches that smelled bad.
Again we did not eat much and went hungry the entire time.

After the second Dog House, we were moved to the Dillcy facility.
There are no current plans for our release.