Border Patrol Photos Confirm Immigrant Claims About Detention Center Atrocities

Photos released on Thursday reveal, for the first time ever, the harsh conditions facing immigrants held in processing facilities run by the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency. The images help confirm what immigrant detainees have been saying for years: that detention centers are unsanitary and inhumane.

The video stills released on Thursday showcase atrocious conditions in three processing facilities — akin to jails— run by CBP in Tuscon, Douglas, and Casa Grande.

Women and children sleep on concrete floors with nothing but emergency blankets. Even though there are empty beds in empty cells, men are packed shoulder-to-shoulder into the same room and forced to sleep on the floor. Some have no form of cover at all even though immigrants have described the cells as ice boxes....
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