'It's not true that people are being denied showers, that these children are being denied access to these facilities,' Aaron Hull insisted.
"It's not true that people are being denied showers, that these children are being denied access to these facilities," the CBP chief continued."We make these things available, we encourage them," he asserted.
"We encounter people from all over the world who are often very dirty and in soiled clothing when we encounter them," Hull argued. He then said that at certain stations, CBP keeps clean clothes on hand for children taken into custody, claiming that their clothes would also be laundered."We can't control how they come into our custody. They're often dirty, but we make these facilities available to them and these clean clothes available to them," the chief insisted.
Migrant children who have been separated from their families can be seen in tents at a detention center in Homestead, Florida on June 27"I have never seen them cleaning counters, or cleaning toilets in the cells, or cleaning sinks in the cells," a CBP agentunder the condition of anonymity said during an interview last week. The agent also explained that many migrants were forced to keep"wearing the same clothing for days.
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