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Watchdog: Migrants Speak of Dire US Holding Center Conditions

Associated Press

   EL PASO, TEXAS - The Trump administration is facing growing complaints
   from migrants about severe overcrowding, meager food and other
   hardships at border holding centers, with some people at an encampment
   in El Paso being forced to sleep on the bare ground during dust storms.

   The Border Network for Human Rights issued a report Friday based on
   dozens of testimonials of immigrants over the past month and a half,
   providing a snapshot of cramped conditions and prolonged stays in
   detention amid a record surge of migrant families coming into the U.S.
   from Central America.

   Teen mother, premature infantcaged

   The report comes a day after an advocate described finding a teenage
   mother cradling a premature baby inside a Border Patrol processing
   center in Texas. The advocate said the baby should have been in a
   hospital, not a facility where adults are kept in large fenced-in
   sections that critics describe as cages.

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