Border Patrol agents packed migrants into overcrowded patrol stations near the Rio Grande Valley, creating conditions one facility manager called a 'ticking time bomb,' according to a new government watchdog report.
U.S. Border Patrol agents packed migrants into overcrowded patrol stations near the Rio Grande Valley, creating conditions so poor that one facility manager called it a"ticking time bomb," according to a new government watchdog report made public on Tuesday.
The report states that 50 migrant children under the age of seven traveling without their parents were being held in custody at the facilities – some waiting more than two weeks before finally being transferred to a longer term shelter. The watchdog office inspected five facilities in the Rio Grande Valley. Children at three of the facilities did not have access to showers and some kids were not provided hot meals, a requirement outlined by government detention standards. Inspectors did find that facilities were stocked with infant formula, diapers, baby wipes as well as juice and snacks.
Homeland Security said the number of kids at these facilities was reduced to less than a thousand last week.
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