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  • Lawyers: 250 children held in bad conditions at Texas border

    CEDAR ATTANASIO and GARANCE BURKE|Jun 21, 2019

    EL PASO, Texas (AP) — A traumatic and dangerous situation is unfolding for some 250 infants, children and teens locked up for up to 27 days without adequate food, water and sanitation, according to a legal team that interviewed dozens of children at a Border Patrol station in Texas. The attorneys who recently visited the facility near El Paso told The Associated Press that three girls, ages 10 to 15, said they had been taking turns watching over a sick 2-year-old boy because there was no one else to look after him. When the lawyers saw the b...

  • Lawmakers decry perilous federal lockups for migrant kids

    CEDAR ATTANASIO and GARANCE BURKE|Jun 21, 2019

    CLINT, Texas (AP) — Lawmakers on Friday were calling for swift change after reports this week of more than 250 infants, children and teens being held inside a windowless Border Patrol station, struggling to care for each other with inadequate food, water and sanitation. It's a scene that is being repeated at other immigration facilities overwhelmed with too many migrant children and nowhere to put them. "This facility wasn't even on our radar before we came down here," said law professor Warren Binford, a member of the team that interviewed d...