{"id":359201,"date":"2021-03-31T12:30:59","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T16:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=359201"},"modified":"2021-03-31T13:57:42","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T17:57:42","slug":"media-gets-first-look-inside-severely-overcrowded-migrant-facility-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/media-gets-first-look-inside-severely-overcrowded-migrant-facility-in-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Gets First Look Inside Severely Overcrowded Migrant Facility In Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmedia-gets-first-look-inside-severely-overcrowded-migrant-facility-in-texas%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=359201&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>After weeks of denying journalists access to an overcrowded migrant facility at the U.S.-Mexico border, reporters were finally allowed in to get their first look.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">A pool of selected reporters and photographers was allowed into the center in Donna, Texas, where more than 4,000 migrants are held. Some 3,400 are unaccompanied minors. Photos show migrants packed into plexiglass pods, strewn with shiny Mylar blankets.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_205726\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-205726\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/pool1-2-300x169.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-4785.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-4786.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-4787.jpeg 1024w\" alt=\"Child migrants lay on floor mats at a U.S. Customs and Border Protection holding facility in Donna, Texas, U.S., on Tuesday, March 30, 2021. President\u00a0Joe\u00a0Biden\u00a0expressed confidence that Mexico will accept families arriving at the U.S. border, while defending his administration's approach to the surge in\u00a0migration, pinning some of the blame on former President\u00a0Donald Trump. Photographer: \" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-205726\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-205726\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dario Lopez-Mills\/AP Photo\/Bloomberg via Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThere are eight \u2018pods\u2019 in total \u2014 critics have called them \u2018cages\u2019 in reference to criticism leveled at the Trump administration \u2014 each containing 500-600 migrants,\u201d Fox News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/inside-border-crisis-press-tours-packed-texas-facility\">reported<\/a>. \u201cGuidelines say there should only be 32 migrants in each pod. Donna\u2019s temporary facility is 140,000 square feet.\u00a0Children sleep on three-inch gym mats and lie under metallic foil blankets. Kids are given masks but many don\u2019t wear them. In one room, pool reporters saw a purple and pink pen surrounding a group of 27 children on an alphabet rug, ranging from 3-9 years old. The youngest child is just four months old.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_205725\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-205725\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/pool-2-300x173.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-4788.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-4789.jpeg 997w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-4790.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-4791.jpeg 1023w\" alt=\"DONNA, TEXAS - MARCH 30: Young unaccompanied migrants, ages 3-9 watch TV inside a playpen at the Department of Homeland Security holding facility on March 30, 2021 in Donna, Texas. The Donna location is the main detention center for unaccompanied children coming across the U.S. border in the Rio Grande Valley. (Photo by \" width=\"300\" height=\"173\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-205725\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-205725\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dario Lopez-Mills \u2013 Pool\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The pool was reportedly told that there are now more than 500 Border Patrol agents working at the facility, which should cost $6 million a month but now costs $16 million a month. \u201cThe Department of Homeland Security turned over 600 unaccompanied children to HHS on Monday and will have 270 migrants leave on Tuesday. Two planes are flying out each day from the Rio Grande Valley each day to El Paso and San Diego transporting migrants,\u201d Fox News reported.<\/p>\n<p>In some of his first actions in office, Biden did away with the Migrant Protection Protocol (MPP) \u2014 also known as the \u201cRemain in Mexico\u201d policy \u2014 which kept foreigners who tried to enter the U.S. illegally in camps in Mexico while they awaited hearings. Instead, Biden returned to a \u201ccatch-and-release\u201d policy in which illegal aliens are allowed to enter the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Suddenly, the flow of foreigners to the border exploded. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents apprehended nearly 100,000 people at the border in February. Last April, just more than 16,000 were captured at the border, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/fact-tank\/2021\/03\/15\/migrant-apprehensions-at-u-s-mexico-border-are-surging-again\/\">according<\/a> to Pew data.<\/p>\n<p>Former President Donald Trump last week accused Biden of causing \u201cdeath and human tragedy\u201d by overturning his border policies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe proudly handed the Biden Administration the most secure border in history,\u201d the former president said in a statement. \u201d All they had to do was keep this smooth-running system on autopilot.\u00a0 Instead, in the span of a just few weeks, the Biden Administration has turned a national triumph into a national disaster. They are in way over their heads and taking on water fast.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Team Biden last week blamed Trump for the swarm of foreigners at the U.S. border.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBiden officials claim Trump officials did not fully cooperate with his transition team, hindering their ability get a realistic view of potential migration, and that Trump deconstructed the immigration and asylum system \u2013 which they then inherited,\u201d the Daily Mail <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-9385307\/Biden-officials-blame-Trump-border-crisis-15-000-unaccompanied-kids-custody.html\">reported<\/a> on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs we were coming into the administration, we knew we were inheriting an absolute mess from the previous administration \u2014 that there were aspects of our legal immigration system that had been gutted and a department that lacked the personnel to administer our laws,\u201d said Julie Chavez Rodriguez, the director of the White House\u2019s office of intergovernmental affairs, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/03\/20\/politics\/immigration-border-crisis-biden-administration\/index.html\">according<\/a> to CNN.<\/p>\n<p>But former acting CBP Commissioner Mark Morgan told CNN that the Biden transition team was \u201cspecifically warned again and again and again,\u201d adding that officials even modeled a projected increase in border encounters if Trump policies were withdrawn.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After weeks of denying journalists access to an overcrowded migrant facility at the U.S.-Mexico border, reporters were finally allowed in to get their first look.A pool of selected reporters and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2311447,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/pool1-2-300x169.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Media Gets First Look Inside Severely Overcrowded Migrant Facility In Texas","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-359201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/pool1-2-300x169.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Media Gets First Look Inside Severely Overcrowded Migrant Facility In Texas","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2311447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}