US Border Patrol agents give tours of troubled crossing area
US immigration officials took reporters on a tour of a Texas migrant holding facility on Thursday (July 1) that was still overcrowded a week after lawyers raised concerns about conditions.
Migrant apprehensions on the US-Mexico border reached a 13-year high in May and the center, operated by US Customs and Border Protection, is crowded with 1,984 migrants in a facility with capacity for 1,500, according to Carmen Qualia a US Border Patrol official who conducted the tour.
But unaccompanied children and families are now being released within a 72-hour limit, a legal requirement under the 1997 Flores agreement, Qualia said.
Government personnel from other agencies have been called to the border to help process the ballooning number of migrants.
The Trump administration, criticized for a policy of family separation last year, says it now only separates children from parents and legal guardians they are traveling with if there is some perceived risk to the child. It has given few details on what criteria are used to make those decision.
(Source: Reuters)
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