"We can witness with our own eyes, testify with our own words to our fellow Americans what is going on here." Five months earlier outside this same South Texas facility, then-congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez staged an emotional photo op, covering her face in anguish and weeping for the children being held in what the Associated Press later called a "Detention camp" in an "Isolated corner of the Texas desert." Indeed, for Democrats and the corporate press, the Tornillo facility, which at one point housed more than 2,800 migrant teens during the 2019 border crisis, became a symbol of Trump's supposed malevolence towards migrants and the cruelty of his policies.
Every time the Trump administration expanded the facility, the media would meticulously document it.
The minors housed there were released to parents and relatives living in the United States or transferred to other facilities.
One immigration activist told the Washington Post that Tornillo had been "a monstrosity of an idea." Given all this, you might be surprised to learn that today, under the Biden administration, there are numerous emergency facilities for migrant kids that are far worse than Tornillo, and far bigger.
The Biden administration is now warehousing nearly 20,000 migrant minors, almost double the highest total in federal custody during the Trump administration, which was 11,400 in May 2019.
A handful of lawyers authorized to visit these facilities and interview the kids there are speaking to the media about what they've seen.
There were gas leaks inside and outside where the kids were living, and the facility was woefully understaffed.
Every time the Trump administration expanded the facility, the media would meticulously document it.
The minors housed there were released to parents and relatives living in the United States or transferred to other facilities.
One immigration activist told the Washington Post that Tornillo had been "a monstrosity of an idea." Given all this, you might be surprised to learn that today, under the Biden administration, there are numerous emergency facilities for migrant kids that are far worse than Tornillo, and far bigger.
The Biden administration is now warehousing nearly 20,000 migrant minors, almost double the highest total in federal custody during the Trump administration, which was 11,400 in May 2019.
A handful of lawyers authorized to visit these facilities and interview the kids there are speaking to the media about what they've seen.
There were gas leaks inside and outside where the kids were living, and the facility was woefully understaffed.
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