President Joe Biden’s administration has allowed journalists inside its main border detention facility for migrant children for the first time, after weeks of shutting the media out and releasing their own photos.
The tour on Tuesday revealed a severely overcrowded tent structure in Donna, Texas, where more than 4,000 migrants, including children and families, are crammed into pods.
The youngest are kept in a large play pen with mats on the floor for sleeping, because the facility is at 1,700% capacity and the dormitories are full.
Border guards say 14 per cent – roughly one in seven – of the migrant children have tested positive for COVID while photos also show detainees being treated for lice, amid fears of an outbreak.
Two thousand children have already overstayed their 72-hour legal limit and at least 39 have been stuck in the cramped quarters for two weeks.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection allowed two journalists from The Associated Press and a crew from CBS to tour the facility in the Rio Grande Valley.
It is the same shelter visited by GOP Senator Ted Cruz and another 18 Republicans over the weekend – but this is the first time the press has been given a full tour.
The shelter has a capacity of 250 but more than 4,100 people were being housed on the property Tuesday.
GSC is not pointing anything out other than the media and Democratic hypocrisy. On MSN, it’s not in the first 58 articles that one can toggle through.
You guys think Bikki, GSC and SF-maybe me too are not objective.
If so, I’d suggest you guys try to lead by example. Instead of jumping on everything. Try to understand their viewpoint and try to find common ground. If we can’t do it, how can we expect the fools in DC to do so.
I’m confused. All immigrants are going to holding facilities. I remember the outrage being about the Trump admin separating kids from parents/guardians. From my understanding, that policy has been canceled. Is that not true?