The video shows children and families packed into tight living quarters, sleeping on gray camping mats with mylar blankets for warmth. In transparent, plastic pods there is hardly room to walk with young children crammed shoulder to shoulder.
The Biden administration for the first time on Tuesday allowed news media inside a Customs and Border Protection facility facing unprecedented overcrowding due to the recent surge of migrant children and families.A growing backlog inflamed by the coronavirus pandemic has caused delays for the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Refugee Resettlement, the agency responsible for housing children after they are apprehended by Border Patrol.
Journalists also saw a fenced in recreation area where two groups of boys were playing soccer, agents in dark sunglasses watching over them. Escamilla said children are offered the opportunity to call family members at least once every 48 hours while they are in the facility. PHOTO: A temporary processing facility in Donna, Texas, safely processes family units and unaccompanied children, March 17, 2021.
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