Children sleep behind bars, on concrete floors at border 'prison', House Democrats say
More than two dozen Democratic members of Congress visited a holding facility in Texas for separated immigrant children Saturday and described conditions as "cruel and inhumane" that bring "a great shame to a great country."
The delegation visited a Customs and Border Protection processing facility in the U.S.-Mexico border city of McAllen, the epicenter of the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" policy in which people entering the U.S. illegally face being prosecuted.
They described seeing children sleeping behind bars, on concrete floors and under emergency “mylar” heat-resistant blanks. California Congressman Jackie Speier, D-Calif., said, “It is, for all intents and purposes, a prison.”
Until a public outcry erupted, forcing Donald Trump to reverse course, parents were jailed and children taken to government-contracted shelters. About 9,000 such family units have been caught in each of the last three months, according to U.S. border authorities.
Although the separations have been stopped, some 2,000 children have still not been reunited with their parents.
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