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Exhibit 19
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Exhibit 19
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declare as follows:

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case, I would testify competently about these facts.

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

I came to the USA fleeing sexual violence and child abuse. In El Salvador, I

6 suffered a lot and was in and out of shelters throughout my childhood. I experienced
7 some very horrible violence at a young age, and I haven't really told my story until now.
8 I was gang raped when I was 15 years old. The rapists told me not to tell anyone or they
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would kill me. My biological dad is deceased, and my mom was involved with a man

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who was abusive to me, and I did not feel safe at home. My older sister is paralyzed -she

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suffered horrible abuse and can no longer speak or walk. I also have two little brothers. I

12 decided to leave my country for safety and opportunity in the United States.
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I am 16 years old. I am currently being held in ORR custody detained at the

14 Shiloh Residential Treatment Center. I arrived here on September 7, 2017. Shiloh is a
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locked facility with 24-hour surveillance and monitoring. The children are detained here

16 and no one is free to leave.
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2017. I was first detained at Southwest Key, a shelter, but then I became increasingly

I was taken into immigration custody in Texas about eleven months ago in January

19 stressed, because I felt like I was going to be detained forever. I just want to live in
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Oakland, California with my grandpa- I don't want to be detained. My grandfather is in

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the beginning of process of sponsoring me.

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mirror. The staff accused me of trying to hurt myself and sent me to a psychiatric

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hospital. Then a psychologist recommended that I come here to Shiloh because there is

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more one-on-one attention here.

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One time a staff member began yelling at me at Southwest Keys and I broke a

I don't remember ever being told or reading that I could appeal or challenge the

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government's decision to put me into this treatment facility, or that I could go to court

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about it.

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I have never had a thirty-day review to review my custody classification since I

2 have been here. No one has formally sat down with me and reviewed whether I should
3 be stepped down to a lower level of security or told me how I'm doing here or what I
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I have had about three court hearings. My attorney is Paola, I think I met with her

6 recently but I don't remember.
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At Shiloh, I am given three pills every day. In the morning I take one pill, I don't

8 lrnow what it is. In the evening, I take Prozac and Melatonin. The staff checks our
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mouths to make sure that we have taken our medicine. I don't think that my family was

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asked before giving me medicine. My understanding is that the government makes those

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decisions.

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impacts your privileges and delays when you can get released.

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The staff hold down and inject youth who aren't able to calm down.

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I am only allowed two 15-minute calls per week. The calls have no privacy.

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Sometimes I talk to my mother and sometimes I talk to my grandfather.

I think I would get a "report" if I didn't take my medicine. Getting a report

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I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct. Executed on this

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first day ofDecember 2017, at Manvel Texas.

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