'These conditions are among the worst we've seen in recent history,” said Andre Segura, legal director for the ACLU of Texas.
U.S. Border Patrol agents have been accused of carrying out a string of"inhumane" abuses at an outdoor holding area for asylum seekers at the overcrowded Paso del Norte Port of Entry in El Paso, Texas, where hundreds of predominantly Central American families were forced to wait for their asylum claims to be processed over the past week.
“Border Patrol’s detention of people in outdoor pens, forcing families and children to sleep in the dirt for days, is just the latest cruelty inflicted on asylum seekers by this administration,” said Shaw Drake, policy counsel for the ACLU Border Rights Center. Speaking to Texas Monthly, one asylum seeker, identified only by his first name, Carlos, said that he believed that what Border Patrol agents"were trying to do was hurt us psychologically, so we would understand that this is a lesson we were being taught, that we shouldn't have crossed."
Still, Andre Segura, legal director for the ACLU of Texas, said immigration officials need to be held to account for overseeing conditions that"are among the worst we've seen in recent history." ACLU of Texas said its complaint additionally"calls into question claims made by the CBP Office of Field Operations and Border Patrol that increased apprehensions have overwhelmed its indoor detention facilities."
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