Migrant Children Moved From Border Patrol Facility After Reports of Unsafe Conditions

Style Magazine Newswire | 7/19/2019, 1:37 p.m.
Hundreds of children have been moved from a Border Patrol facility near El Paso after reports surfaced that they spent …
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Hundreds of children have been moved from a Border Patrol facility near El Paso after reports surfaced that they spent nearly a month living with substandard food, water and sanitation. Many of the children were sent to another El Paso facility, Border Patrol Station 1, where they remain in Border Patrol custody until they can be placed with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, according to NBC News. U.S. Rep.Veronica Escobar told the Associated Press, which first reported about the conditions in Clint, that just 30 children remain there. Several attorneys who visited the station said they found at least 15 children sick with the flu, some of whom were being kept in medical quarantine. They described seeing a sick and diaperless 2-year-old boy whose “shirt was smeared in mucus.” Three girls ages 10 to 15 were taking turns watching him.

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