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Hundreds of children wait in Border Patrol facility in Texas
Source: AP
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McALLEN, Texas (AP) Inside an old warehouse in South Texas, hundreds of children wait in a series of cages created by metal fencing. One cage had 20 children inside. Scattered about are bottles of water, bags of chips and large foil sheets intended to serve as blankets.
One teenager told an advocate who visited that she was helping care for a young child she didn't know because the child's aunt was somewhere else in the facility. She said she had to show others in her cell how to change the girl's diaper.
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More than 1,100 people were inside the large, dark facility that's divided into separate wings for unaccompanied children, adults on their own, and mothers and fathers with children. The cages in each wing open out into common areas to use portable restrooms. The overhead lighting in the warehouse stays on around the clock.
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Reporters were not allowed by agents to interview any of the detainees or take photos.
Read more: https://www.apnews.com/amp/9794de32d39d4c6f89fbefaea3780769?__twitter_impression=true
Not allowing pictures or interviews was a rigging of the the show.
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Hundreds of children wait in Border Patrol facility in Texas (Original Post)
laserhaas
Jun 2018
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duforsure
(11,885 posts)1. Cowards Cruz and Cornyn both too scared to do anything for fear of trump
Both cowards and should be shamed out of office now.
Lonestarblue
(10,106 posts)2. I have contacted both senators.
I asked both of them to introduce a simple resolution outlawing this policy, with no other attachments or riders to slow it down and get it bogged down. I doubt either will do anything. I also asked why they had been silent on this policy and accused them of approving of it fully since theyve said nary a word against it. Im sick of these sycophants who dont care one iota about anyone who is not a wealthy donor. November cannot come fast enough!
keithbvadu2
(36,962 posts)3. Trump called undocumented immigrants 'animals'...Why should he worry about putting them in cages?
Trump called undocumented immigrants 'animals'...Why should he worry about putting them in cages?