Reporters from AP, CBS, NBC were finally given access to the Donna, Texas detention center for migrant children, and found appalling conditions. A week ago, Project Veritas released pictures of the center, obtained from a Congressman who had visited it, but this is the first time that major medida were permitted access. They found that there are currently 4,100 children crammed into one tent facility designed to house 250 people. There is nothing for these kids to do and nowhere to go, so they are all stretched out on mats, very close to each other, covered with foil blankets. See video here: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/03/lice-outbreak-bidens-kids-cages-camp-4100-children-stuffed-facility-holds-250-children/
In one of 8 pods designed to hold 32 people, there were 650 children. No COVID tests are given unless a child shows symptoms, RT reported. More than 1,200 migrants have been processed at Donna, and are waiting to be transferred, but Health and Human Services, tasked with caring for them, has no place for them to go. Some are being held at the Fort Bliss army base in El Paso. The San Diego Convention Center also serves as housing for young migrants. Fox News reported yesterday that of more than 700 unaccompanied girls transferred there, 82 tested positive for COVID.
Oscar Escamilla, acting executive officer for the Rio Grande Valley Operational Programs Division told CBS that it cost $6.1 million to set up the processing facility, and it should cost that much to run it per month, but because of overcrowding, the actual cost is $16 million a month. The Washington Examiner reports that the current wave of migrants has already surpassed the high points of 2018 and 2019, before Mexico deployed troops to the border and Trump began to build the wall. The daily said that as of March 28, there were 5,767 unaccompanied minors in the custody of Customs and Border Patrol—compared to 2,600 at the height of the 2019 border surge—and another 11,886 housed in HHS facilities.
