Nearly 300 migrant children have been removed from unsanitary conditions in Texas border patrol facility following reports of lawyers describing “appalling” and potentially dangerous conditions, DHS officials tell NBCNews.
Nearly 300 migrant children have been removed from the unsanitary conditions in a border patrol facility in Texas followingof lawyers describing “appalling” and potentially dangerous conditions, Department of Homeland Security officials told NBC News.
The children who were removed were being held at a border station in Clint, Texas. Some were wearing dirty clothes covered in mucus or even urine, said Elora Mukherjee, the director of the Immigrants’ Rights Clinic at Columbia Law School. Teenage mothers wore clothing stained with breast milk. None of the children had access to soap or toothpaste, she said.
“I have never seen conditions as appalling as what we witnessed last week,” she said. “The children are hungry, dirty and sick and being treated to very long periods of time.” She said nearly all the children had been separated from adults they crossed the border with — siblings, aunts or grandparents, or even their parents.Many also had family members already in the United States waiting to take them in, she said.
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