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Exhibit 14
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1 I,

declare as follows:

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This declaration is based on my personal knowledge. If called to testify in this

4 case, I would testify competently about these facts.

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I am 13 years old. I am from El Salvador. I am currently being held in ORR

6 custody in the Shiloh Residential Treatment Facility.
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I was taken into the Office of Refugee Resettlement ("ORR") custody in about

8 August of 2017. I was held at a Southwest Key shelter in Texas for about two months.
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I was verbally told about my transfer to Shiloh Residential Treatment Facility

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approximately one day before my transfer. I was also told that I was going to a place that

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was better for me, but no one explained why they thought it was better. I did not receive

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any papers that explained why I was transferred to Shiloh. I did not want to leave the

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Southwest Key shelter, but I was told that the government had already made a decision. I

14 don't remember receiving any document that explained that I had the right to challenge
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the government's decision to send me to Shiloh. Ifl had, I would have challenged the

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decision.

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Center. During this time, I have not been told about, and I have not received a 30-day

I have spent approximately one month and half at the Shiloh Residential Treatment

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In the three months I have been living in the U.S., I have not had a court hearing.

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No one has told me who my attorney is or when I will be going to court.

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to six pills in the evening. I don't know what all the pills are for, but I think the ones I

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take at night are for depression and anxiety. When I have asked about the additional

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medication, I have been told that the pills are vitamins. I am also told that the pills are

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recommended by my doctor. As far as I know, ORR did not ask my mother for

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permission before they gave me the medication.

I take pills every morning and night. I take four pills in the morning and about four

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I do not want to take the pills because I don't think they help me and they make me

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sleepy. I have not refused taking the pills because I was told that the doctor will see that I

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refused the medication and that would make my stay at Shiloh longer because it would

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make it harder for the doctor to release me.

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staff scream at me. I feel afraid all the time. My father was abusive and I was bullied a

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lot by other boys in the past, so it is hard for me to be around men all day long. I have

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asked to spend less time around men, but I have been told that it is not possible.

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I don't feel safe here because the staff are mainly men and because sometimes the

My worst experience at Shiloh Residential Treatment Center occurred at the end of

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October 2017. I gathered things inside a bag and I tried to escape from the center. The

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Shiloh staff stopped me before I could escape. They told me to not try to escape because

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if I did, I would be sent to jail. The Shiloh staff then told me to go to my room. They

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called a supervisor. The staff pulled my arms behind my back. Eventually I was taken to

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my room. Once inside my room I tried to open the window. The supervisor saw me do

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this, and in response, he violently threw me against the door. I felt faint. At some point

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the supervisor placed me against the wall, but the top of my head touched the wall, so

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from my head to my back, my body was in a backwards C-shape. The supervisor pushed

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me against the wall with all ofhis weight and this caused my neck to compress. This

19 made me feel like I was choking and it was hard for me to breathe. I told the supervisor t
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stop because I couldn't breathe. All I could hear the supervisor say was "No stop." I don'

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remember for how long I was held in this painful position, but it was a long time. I briefly

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fainted. As I recovered consciousness a staff person violently threw me on my bed and

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this caused my head to bang against the wall. I did not receive medical attention to my

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head. The doctor checked for fractures in my arms but I did not have fractures. I had

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purple bruises on my arms.

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injection to calm me down. Before they gave me the injection, I was feeling dizzy and

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was still having a hard time breathing. I was in a lot of pain with bruises all over, and I

After the doctor came, the supervisor told me I was going to get a medication

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1 did not want the injection. Two staff grabbed me, and the doctor gave me the injection
2 despite my objection and left me there on the bed.
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I miss my mother, and I really want to be reunited with her. My mother lives in

4 Los Angeles, and is in the process of trying to reunify with me. My sister and my niece

5 were reunited with my mother recently, and I want to be with them, too. I think my
6 mother is doing a home study. I want to be sent to a shelter in California so that I can be
7 closer to her. I hope to soon reunify with her, but I have not been told how long it will
8 take. I haven't seen her in three months, and it is very hard for me not to know when I
9 will be able to see her again.
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I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct. Executed on this

12 30th day of November, 2017, at Manvel, Texas.
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