1 Jul 2019 1:07 pm
New DHS Inspector General's report shows that conditions at Trump's migrant jails are so bad that border agents fear riots.
Well I guess they're substantiated now.Border agents feared riots over poor conditions at an El Paso, Texas, border station as far back as May, according to a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) inspector general report shared with The Hill Monday.
Inspectors noted during a May 7 tour of the station, the name of which is redacted in the report, that only four showers were available for 756 immigrants, over half of which were being held in tents outside the facility.
Those being held inside were kept in cells that were maxed at over five times their intended capacity, according to reports.
The report says that the conditions and overcrowding made border agents fear unrest.
Agents reported taking sick migrants to the hospital five times a day, treating 75 immigrants for lice in a day and trying to quarantine outbreaks of flu and the chickenpox.
The report's release on Monday comes after new acting DHS Secretary Kevin McAleenan said that reports of poor conditions for children at a border station in the El Paso sector were "unsubstantiated."
https://thehill.com/latino/451134-agent ... ion-report