The licensing authority should be able to access the facilities and make criminal referrals. I think a whistleblower has to come forward and report crimes or some other hard evidence of a likely crime is shown, before the police could step in.

If you look the facilities are all licensed as child care facilities and are instecated like any other.

That’s been in place for a long time.

Not sure why people think it’s not the case. If you do even a cursory search you can find the facilities listing where they are licensed and on the state websites you can find public reports on inspections back as far as 2014 and earlier.

This one has existed for a week and no one's allowed in.

https://www.texastribune.org/2018/06/21/immigrant-children-tent-city-texas-mayors-austin-el-paso/

Article states it is not licensed.

I suspect different rules apply to the facilities directly at the port of entry.

Under the law, unless Trump starts ignoring it like his executive order said to, they can only hold a minor there a maximum of 20 days and then they must be handed over to DHHS.

The facilities run by DHHS are the ones I was referring to.