‘An acute and worsening crisis’

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Overcrowded, squalid conditions are more widespread at migrant centers along the southern border than initially revealed, the Department of Homeland Security’s independent watchdog said Tuesday. Its report describes standing-room-only cells, children without showers and hot meals, and detainees clamoring desperately for release.
A page from the Office of Inspector General report.

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patrol clothes to escape

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and offered no response

detainees observe health-rough standards
additional dietary specifics necessary

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adults after 72 hours overcrowd their hungry cells

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bathetic detainees scarved in constipated detainees

and offered no response

clogging countless alien adults
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maintainees clothed by their cells

and offered no response

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at multiple facilities clothes were released

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observed detainees for a time
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who had vitals moved from our visits

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and offered no response

detainees escape
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offer no response

Source: United States. Dept. of Homeland Security. Office of The Inspector General. By Jennifer L. Costello. 2019. Archived by the New York Times. Web. 3 July 2019.

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