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Lawmakers decry deplorable lockups for migrant kids

Associated Press
CLINT, Texas (AP) — Law-
makers on Friday were call-
ing for swift change after
reports this week of more
than 250 infants, children
and teens being held in-
side a windowless Border
Patrol station, struggling to
care for each other with in-
adequate food, water and
sanitation.
It's a scene that is being re-
peated at other immigra-
tion facilities overwhelmed
with too many migrant chil-
dren and nowhere to put
them.
"This facility wasn't even on
our radar before we came
down here," said law pro-
fessor Warren Binford, a
member of the team that
interviewed dozens of chil-
dren this week detained
in Clint, about a half-hour
drive from El Paso. Fifteen
children had the flu, anoth-
er 10 were quarantined.
At another Border Patrol
station in McAllen, Texas, This June 20, 2019, frame from video shows the entrance of a Border Patrol station in Clint, Texas. A legal team, that interviewed
attorney Toby Gialluca said about 60 children at the station near El Paso, says young migrants being held there are experiencing neglect and mistreatment at
all the children she talked the hands of the U.S. government.
to last week were very sick Associated Press
with high fevers, coughing
and wearing soiled clothes clothed," she said. as young as 8 to care for Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to any harm they suffer," he
crusted with mucus and dirt Gialluca said migrant teens the babies and toddlers. slammed Congress as "a said.
after their long trip north. in McAllen told her they State and federal elected group of reprobates" for Oregon's Sen. Jeff Merkley
"Everyone is sick. Everyone. were offered frozen ham officials Friday demanded failing to provide adequate pushed the Department
They're using their clothes sandwiches and rotten change about conditions border security funding. of Homeland Security to
to wipe mucus off the chil- food. at Clint, McAllen and other "Every child who is not publish a remediation plan
dren, wipe vomit off the At both detention facilities, Border Patrol stations. There being taken care of ad- "to immediately end these
children. Most of the lit- the children told attorneys was plenty of angry finger- equately at the border, abuses."
tle children are not fully that guards instructed girls pointing as well. Congress is an accomplice Continued on Page 3