Photos show the 'dangerous overcrowding' at border patrol stations in Texas. See for yourself
includes disturbing photographs of conditions one senior manager at a detention facility called “a ticking time bomb.”The July 2nd report to Acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan from Acting DHS Inspector General Jennifer Costello provides hard numbers to quantify the overcrowding at the border. At five facilities, Border Patrol was warehousing 8,000 detainees, including 3,400 who had been jailed longer than three days.
When it comes to food, the report states, religious and dietary restrictions are not being honored, with adult detainees being fed “only bologna sandwiches.” When one group refused to return to a cell after it had been cleaned, Border Patrol “brought in its special operations team to demonstrate it was prepared to use force if necessary.”The conditions are creating “an immediate risk to the health and safety of DHS agents and officers” in addition to those detained, according to the report. “We ended our site visit at one Border Patrol facility early because our presence was agitating an already difficult situation.
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