According to the Associated Press, the Trump administration is moving 300 migrant kids from a facility in El Paso after their poor conditions were exposed:
Government moves most of the children out of a Texas Border Patrol station after AP report that more than 300 children were held there in perilous conditions. Thirty children remain at the facility. https://t.co/SBvpipwDZj
— The Associated Press (@AP) June 24, 2019
The U.S. government has removed most of the children from a remote Border Patrol station in Texas following reports that more than 300 kids were detained there and caring for each other with inadequate food, water and sanitation.
Rep. Veronica Escobar said 30 children were at the facility near El Paso as of Monday. Her office was briefed on the situation by an official with Customs and Border Protection.
Attorneys who visited the station in Clint, Texas last week said older children were trying to take care of infants and toddlers, The Associated Press first reported Thursday. Some had been detained for three weeks, and 15 children were sick with the flu.
It’s unclear where all the children have been moved. But Escobar said some were sent to another facility in El Paso.
OH NOES AOC WAS RIGHT. CONCENTRATION CAMPS!
I’m sure that’s what the left will be singing over this. But in reality, this is more than likely an unfortunate result of the government being overwhelmed with a plague of migrants on the souther border.
The HHS Secretary was just on Fox News and while he didn’t address this specifically because it’s outside of his purview, he did say that many of these border facilities were built back in the 80s and weren’t meant to house tens of thousands of migrants children and their families.
Add to this the fact that Democrats in Congress won’t even fund dealing with this humanitarian crisis, and even more so fixing the immigration policy that led to this crisis.