Rep. Joaquin Castro of Texas released videos purportedly showing the conditions inside two migrant detention centers along the border with Mexico.
Castro, the chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, led a delegation of more than a dozen Democratic lawmakers to tour the U.S. Customs and Border Protection facilities in southwest Texas on Monday. The delegation was told to"surrender their phones" ahead of the tour, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York wrote on Twitter. But Castro"was able to get a device in," Ocasio-Cortez tweeted.
At a border patrol station in El Paso, the congressional members met with a group of women in custody there who agreed to be filmed and gave their names, according to a senior aide in Castro's office. "Many said they had not bathed for 15 days," Castro tweeted."Some had been separated from children, some had been held for more than 50 days. Several complained they had not received their medications, including one for epilepsy."
Next, the delegation toured a border patrol station in Clint, which Castro said houses children and some parents. Castro posted a video on Twitter purportedly showing the mobile shower units there, which he described as"dank, dirty" and"small in number for the hundreds of people there just a few weeks ago."
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