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COVID concerns over migrant children crowded into US facility as space runs low
More than 500 migrant children have been packed into plastic-walled rooms built for 32 people, sitting inches apart on mats with foil blankets at the largest US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) holding facility for unaccompanied children.
Key points:
- A facility in the US state of Texas designed to hold 250 people is holding more than 4,100 migrants
- The Biden administration has allowed journalists to see conditions for the first time since the facility opened last month
- More than 17,000 unaccompanied children were in US custody as of Monday
CBP’s main processing centre for children, a compound of white tents in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley, is designed for 250 people under guidelines from the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention during…
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