New photos are showing the absolutely appalling conditions migrants are being subjected to at the border, with migrants inside cages wrapped up with tinfoil. Don’t mind the “illegal immigrants” comment.
These photos were taken within the last few days. Yes, James O’Keefe and his cronies are right-wing douchebags who are no different than Democrats, but that doesn’t dismiss from the fact that Biden is continuing Trump-era border policies, which of course, no mainstream media outlet will admit. Photos from a Border Patrol detention tent show children held in awful conditions. With the Biden administration keeping the press out, the photos offer a rare glimpse at facilities once called “inhumane” by Biden himself, ironic since he and Obama built them in the first place. Over 15,000 unaccompanied migrant children are currently in custody at the US’ southern border with Mexico, with more than 5,000 held in temporary Customs and Border Protection (CBP) facilities deemed “unacceptable and inhumane” even by Texas Governor Greg Abbott, who is obviously just putting on a theater like both ruling parties do but nonetheless it speaks volumes that even he can call something inhumane.
Border crossings almost tripled in February compared to one year earlier, and are on track to hit a two-decade high, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said last week.
Photos from inside one of these facilities in Donna, Texas, reveal massive overcrowding inside makeshift tent shelters. The pictures, shared with Axios on Sunday by Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas), show these plastic-lined “pods”, also known as cages, operating at twice their capacity, with groups of children huddled between crude, plastic sheet dividers.
Throughout his campaign, Biden promised a “fair and humane” border policy, and his administration insists that its host of recently opened “overflow facilities” are a world away from the “cages” former President Donald Trump kept unaccompanied minors in. Although Mayorkas has described CBP facilities as “no place for a child,” he insisted last week that federal agents would “safely receive, shelter and transfer” them into more suitable, longer-term accommodation.
Yet the kids are spending an average of 136 hours in these facilities, over 2 days beyond the legal limit of 72 hours. Moreover, getting an accurate look at the conditions they are kept in has proven difficult. Until now, no public photos from inside these facilities have been shared, journalists have been kept out, and CBP agents have reportedly been forbidden by an unofficial gag order from speaking to the media.
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