I was walking side by side with Alexia Rodriguez, the lawyer for the facility. When I expressed amazement at what I was seeing, without skipping a beat she told me and another reporter standing near her to smile at the kids because “they feel like animals in a cage being looked at.” I think she realized how truthful she had just been, because she immediately said she didn’t want that comment to be on the record, which, of course, is not how that works.
