Thread: New Pics Show Overcrowded Migrant Facilities At Biden’s Border

New Pics Show Overcrowded Migrant Facilities At Biden’s Border



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July 25, 20227:13 PM ET

<sub>As the U.S.-Mexico border continues to see a record-breaking number of migrants, new photos published by the Washington Examiner provided insight into the conditions illegal immigrants endure after they cross into the U.S.

The photographs reveal the overcrowded conditions in which migrants are detained, such as small rooms packed with dozens of people and people sleeping on the floor in spaces meant for recreation and sports, according to images obtained by the Examiner from U.S. Border Patrol agents.



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Night and day, smugglers push migrants across the Rio Grande into Eagle Pass, TX by the dozen or hundreds.
“Since the groups are so large, there’s no room for where we do the intake, so they have to take them to the rec area," said a Border Patrol agent who works inside.



2:08 PM · Jul 25, 2022</sub>

The agents, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, told the Washington Examiner that if people could see inside the migrant detention centers, they would be appalled by the scale of the whole process.



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SCOOP: Inside one of Border Patrol's tents where migrants are detained
Small rooms are crammed with dozens of people. Migrants sleep on the floor on 4-inch-thick mats and shiny Mylar blankets — same things immigrant advocates decried during Trump admin.https://washex.am/3vfnNBD



12:32 PM · Jul 25, 2022

They told the Examiner that the goal is no longer to deter illegal immigration, which is unfolding at the highest level in national history. Rather, the objective is to facilitate migrants and process them into the U.S. system and, more likely than not, release them into the United States.

In previous years, the Del Rio Sector in rural Texas had been one of the least-traveled sectors on the U.S.-Mexico border. Between 2000 and 2020, agents there only apprehended more than 100,000 migrants twice, once in 2000 and again in 2001, according to the Border Patrol.
However, migration and smuggling routes have shifted dramatically. From October 2021 to May 2022 alone, Border Patrol has encountered 280,622 migrants in Del Rio, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP).

Due to the increase in migration in the sector, CBP announced the opening of a new “soft-sided” facility in Eagle Pass, Texas, on July 13.

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