Homeland Security Photos Show ‘Dangerous Overcrowding’ at Border Patrol Camps

Overcrowding of families observed by the DHS Office of the Inspector General on June 11, 2019, at Border Patrol’s Weslaco, TX, Station. Photo: DHS OIG On Tuesday, the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General released a report titled “DHS Needs to Address Dangerous Overcrowding and Prolonged Detention of Children and Adults in the Rio Grande Valley.

DHS auditors visited five facilities and two ports of entry in the Rio Grande Valley to document overcrowding. One facility’s senior manager called the conditions “a ticking time bomb.” As the picture below was being taken, migrants “banged on the cell windows, shouted, [and] pressed notes to the window with their time in custody, and gestured to evidence of their time in custody .” According to NBC correspondent Gadi Schwartz, one migrant’s sign appears to say “HELP 40 day here.

Overcrowding at Border Patrol’s Fort Brown station. Photo: DHS OIG In a similar photo of overcrowding, 51 women were in the cell below meant to hold 40 children. Overcrowding at Border Patrol’s Fort Brown station. Photo: DHS OIG The overcrowding of families has emerged as a profound concern: In the facilities visited by the inspector general’s office, over 2,500 unaccompanied children had been held for more than three days, which violates the Flores settlement determining the guidelines for care of minors in U.S. custody. Around 50 children under the age of 7 had been in custody for over two weeks.

Overcrowding of families observed on June 10, 2019, at Border Patrol’s McAllen, TX, station. Photo: DHS OIG According to the report, “At one facility, some single adults were held in standing room only conditions for a week.”

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