Hungry, Scared and Sick: Inside the Migrant Detention Center in Clint, Tex.
CLINT, Tex. — Since the Border Patrol opened its station in Clint, Tex., in 2013, it was a fixture in this West Texas farm town. Separated from the surrounding cotton fields and cattle pastures by a razor-wire fence, the station stood on the town’s main road, near a feed store, the Good News Apostolic Church and La Indita Tortillería. Most people around Clint had little idea of what went on inside. Agents came and went in pickup trucks; buses pulled into the gates with the occasional load of children apprehended at the border, four miles south.
But inside the secretive site that is now on the front lines of the southwest border crisis, the men and women who work there were grappling with the stuff of nightmares.
Outbreaks of scabies, shingles and chickenpox were spreading among the hundreds of children who were being held in cramped cells, agents said. The stench of the children’s dirty clothing was so strong it spread to the agents’ own clothing — people in town would scrunch their noses when they left work. The children cried constantly. One girl seemed likely enough to try to kill herself that the agents made her sleep on a cot in front of them, so they could watch her as they were processing new arrivals.
“It gets to a point where you start to become a robot,” said a veteran Border Patrol agent who has worked at the Clint station since it was built. He described following orders to take beds away from children to make more space in holding cells, part of a daily routine that he said had become “heartbreaking.”
The little-known Border Patrol facility at Clint has suddenly become the public face of the chaos on America’s southern border, after immigration lawyers began reporting on the children they saw — some of them as young as 5 months old — and the filthy, overcrowded conditions in which they were being held.
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well, I sure have
so in solidarity, I'll go and thank you for posting this, Dennis
...with one JFC for good measure
Up to that point, I knew Nazis were bad, but had no idea of how evil they were until the miniseries. It shook me to my pre-teen core, but, I was able to comfort myself knowing that the United States was instrumental in their eradication.
I've been robbed of that comfort-mechanism 40 years later. No, we aren't gassing people in these Concentration Camps, but we are dehumanizing them to a level that makes me sick to my stomach. 
“comfort-mechanism” we took for granted all these decades...it’s a new world here, and we are shocked and disgusted at the sick and craven lack of humanity right here in our own US of A.
...but we will hang tough, and keep shining lights on these camps, as you have done by posting this, because we have to, goddamit
...but it sucks donkeys to have to live thru the evil. 
