Texas Gov. Abbott says Biden's migrant crisis is now a 'humanitarian disaster' amid COVID outbreak at hastily constructed child holding facility which has no 'usable running water' - while Pelosi claims the president has situation 'under control'
The detention center in Midland County, currently holding more than 400 youths, was opened on Sunday after federal officials converted a 'man camp' for oilfield workers to help handle a massive surge in illegal border crossings, including many unaccompanied minors.
More than 10 percent of the camp's population has tested positive for COVID-19 and at least one child had to be hospitalized. And on Friday, Texas officials issued a dire warning that well water used at the holding site could be contaminated with arsenic or other toxins.
Officials say that there are now more than 14,000 migrant youths being held in federal custody. It is more than three times the largest number of children held under the previous administration, which was widely criticized for putting 'kids in cages.'
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Adults who cross the border illegally with children are usually released into the country pending asylum claims. Above, migrants are seen before crossing the Rio Bravo river to turn themselves in to U.S Border Patrol agents on Friday
Texas Gov. Abbott says Biden's migrant crisis is now a humanitarian disaster | Daily Mail Online
He wrote a whole Twitter thread on it which is unrolled here. I’d like to congratulate Mr Moore on his photo journalist career which is about to abruptly end. And I hope he’s ready for the character assassination onslaught which is about to begin. Hey @evillawyer do you girls have the play book you’re gonna run on him issued yet or just gonna go with the goto attacking his credibility?Biden giving media 'zero access' to border operations: photojournalist
"There’s no modern precedent for a full physical ban on media access to CBP border operations," John Moore said
Award-winning photojournalist John Moore blasted the Biden administration for giving "zero access" to the media to observe Customs and Border Protection operations at the southern border.
Moore took to Twitter to lament the lack of transparency as a surge of migrants trying to enter the country has put a strain on resources.
"I respectfully ask US Customs and Border Protection to stop blocking media access to their border operations," Moore tweeted Friday. "I have photographed CBP under Bush, Obama and Trump but now - zero access is granted to media. These long lens images taken from the Mexican side."
"There’s no modern precedent for a full physical ban on media access to CBP border operations," Moore wrote on Twitter. "To those who might say, cut them some slack -- they are dealing with a situation, I’d say that showing the US response to the current immigrant surge is exactly the media’s role.
Biden giving media 'zero access' to border operations: photojournalist
