Vice President Mike Pence saw firsthand the extreme overcrowding migrants are often forced to endure at federal detention centers when he visited two Friday in Texas.
Video showed detainees packed into their holding areas surrounded by chain-link fence, the concrete floors littered with silver thermal blankets. There were roughly 384 people men there “in caged fences with no cots,” and “the cages were so crowded that it would have been impossible for all of the men to lie on the concrete.” Some of the men in there apparently said they’d been there “40 days or longer.” The Washington Post's Josh Dawsey, the pool reporter accompanying the vice president, described the facility as smelling "horrendous."
A group of men detained behind chain link fencing shouted to news cameras, "No shower, no shower!"
Pence said afterward that what he saw was evidence of a "system that was overwhelmed."
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/no-shower-no-shower-migrants-shout-pence-visits-texas-detention-n1029426?cid=eml_nbn_20190712
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