Salem, OR (Sept. 17, 2019) - Salem City Club, a biweekly gathering of more than 100 members, will meet Sept. 26 at the Willamette Heritage Center to learn more about conditions at Clint, a Texas migrant child detention center.
4 Days in Clint is a firsthand account of what Willamette Law professor and international children’s rights expert, Warren Binford, and her associates discovered when she toured the Clint Border Patrol in June 2019. Over the course of four days and through interviews with approximately 70 children, the team realized that hundreds of children were unlawfully warehoused by the U.S. government in a state of filth, hunger, and sickness without any meaningful adult care. Professor Binford will explain the legal framework that applies to migrant children in custody, highlighting both the legal violations by the U.S. government, as well as the legal loopholes that are behind the current situation. She will also suggest ways that the average U.S. resident can help to close the loopholes.
Warren Binford is the Director of the Clinical Law Program at Willamette University. An internationally recognized children’s rights expert, Professor Binford was invited by legal counsel in Flores v. Barr to help conduct a series of site inspections of especially concerning government facilities where migrant children have been detained since 2017. Professor Binford was selected as both a Fulbright Scholar in 2012 and the inaugural Fulbright Canada-Palix Foundation Distinguished Visiting Chair in Brain Science, and Child and Family Health and Wellness in 2015. She holds a B.A., summa cum laude with distinction, and an Ed.M., from Boston University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.
The program will begin Thursday, Sept. 26, at 12 p.m. at the Willamette Heritage Center at 1313 Mill Street St. SE. Registration fees are $10 for non-members. Lunch for members and non-members is $17 or $16 if payment is made with check or cash. Register online at SalemCityClub.com.
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