Newenglanddeac
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It’s time to shut these things down. Our tax dollars should not be funding this disgusting, inhumane and counterproductive clusterfuck.
Fox News: Homeland Security watchdog reports overcrowding and migrants pleading for help during detention-facility tour
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Fox News: Homeland Security watchdog reports overcrowding and migrants pleading for help during detention-facility tour
Roughly 8,000 immigrants being held in Border Patrol detention facilities in South Texas were subjected to "serious overcrowding" and prolonged detention, according to a report released Tuesday by the Department of Homeland Security's Office of Inspector General.
Photos of migrants in five Rio Grande Valley facilities show many packed into crowded standing-room-only cells and behind fences. Others are shown sleeping on the floor with aluminum blankets. More people cross into the U.S. illegally through the Rio Grande Valley sector than anywhere else along the U.S.-Mexico border.
"Specifically, when detainees observed us, they banged on the cell windows, shouted, pressed notes to the window with their time in custody, and gestured to evidence of their time in custody," the report said.
At three facilities, government auditors said they observed children lacking full access to showers and a change of clothes. Some detainees were given wet-wipes in lieu of showers and many adults hadn't showered despite being held for as long as a month.
At two facilities, inspectors said children were not provided hot meals until the week they arrived. Around 3,400 people had been held longer than the 72 hours generally permitted under Customs and Border Protection standards. Of the 2,669 children detained by the Border Patrol, 826 had been held longer than 72 hours.
More than 50 children under the age of 7 were waiting to be moved to long-term facilities, the report said. A senior manager at one facility called the situation "a ticking time bomb."
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