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Lawmakers Alarmed by State of Federal Lockups for Migrant Kids

Associated Press

   CLINT, TEXAS - 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
   dozens of children this week detained in Clint, about a half-hour drive
   from El Paso. Fifteen children had the flu, another 10 were
   quarantined.

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