Reporters got a tour of a new facility for migrant minors in Texas

Only two dorm buildings are being used in this government-contracted shelter out of a possible eight. Four bunk beds are set up in each 186-square-foot room. Long trailers once used to house oil workers in two-bedroom suites have been converted into 12-person dorms.

The tour was highly controlled. Reporters were allowed to briefly speak with one 17-year-old from Mexico who said she’d been in the facility for 11 days. She was waiting to make a phone call. At a minimum, the HHS says the children get two 10-minute phone calls a week but usually much more. Another teenage girl from Guatemala said she’d been there for several days.

Those were Border Patrol stations in Texas and Arizona — holding facilities where migrants are processed by Customs and Border Protection before they’re turned over to the HHS. But critics argue that HHS facilities also lack adequate oversight and journalists aren’t often allowed in. According to the HHS, the average stay in its facilities is down to 45 days. That’s down from more than 90 days last November. HHS spokesman Mark Weber said the department is looking into opening new, more permanent facilities in five major cities: San Antonio, Houston, Dallas, Atlanta and Phoenix. The agency is also hoping to close its facility in Homestead, Florida, due to declining numbers of migrants — but also due to logistical concerns over evacuations during hurricane season.

gabegutierrez Like the only one they're allowed to go in probably.

gabegutierrez Gaslighting

gabegutierrez A joke!

gabegutierrez Well isn't that special.

gabegutierrez Fake news!

gabegutierrez Way nicer than my first apartment, have some gratitude

gabegutierrez So now they're STAGING? What about the rest?

gabegutierrez do they really think that they can fool us on how most of the children are kept WE NEED TO DEMAND THAT ALL FACILITIES ARE MADE AVAILABLE TO INSPECTORS, CONGRESS AND THE PRESS and not after they spend weeks cleaning it up for show and tell

gabegutierrez We shouldn't have to make a huge international uproar to get them to improve conditions even by a little. I've seen the US handle with ease far worse situations than today at the border, there's no reason for them to have sat on it this long. Build more of these, not just one.

gabegutierrez Of course. They clean them up before they let you in. You are being used for propaganda. Shame on you and your news organization.

gabegutierrez

gabegutierrez Does anybody freaking believe this? It looks like a home staged to sell by a realtor.

gabegutierrez And they knew reporters were coming. 🙄

gabegutierrez The Nazis used to pull this same shit with their concentration camps.

gabegutierrez oh please!

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