'Many of the parents are being extorted in relation to the children's process,' Tekandi Paniagua, the Guatemalan consul general in Del Rio, said.
A Guatemalan diplomat has warned that some of the children at a Texas facility found to have"appalling" conditions during a visit from a group of lawyers last week, have not been able to contact their families.
While Paniagua said he had"never had issues regarding hygiene" at the facility and called it"one of the most modern Border Patrol buildings" he had seen, he understood that"due to the influx [of migrants arriving at the U.S. border] there is not enough capacity and that immediately causes a logistical challenge for the agencies."
The Guatemalan consul general said he had asked Border Patrol to"give priority" to ensuring that children can make contact with their families"either directly, or through the Consulate." "Many of the children who are at the Clint Station are children who came with uncles, grandparents, family friends or people who they don't know," he continued."This misinformation in Guatemala provokes this separation, and children are processed separately as unaccompanied children."
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