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The vice president and other Republican lawmakers visited detention centers in Texas on Friday. White House pool reporter Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) documented the journey and Pence's response to the conditions.

The vice president and other Republican lawmakers visited detention centers in Texas on Friday. White House pool reporter Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) documented the journey and Pence's response to the conditions.

  1. 12 lip 2019

    . has arrived in McAllen, TX. He will tour the Donna Soft-Sided Processing Facility in Donna, Texas, then participate in a roundtable with US border patrol and members of the Senate Judiciary Committee at the McAllen Border Patrol Station.

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  2. 12 lip 2019

    "What people are going to see is not the situation many Democrats have described, but actually a situation where our CBP agents are providing humanitarian care, health care, shelter, food, sustenance in a way that would make the American people proud," Pence told reporters Thurs.

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  3. 12 lip 2019

    VP Pence also got first hand look at detention cages holding adult men at the Border Patrol Station in McAllen, TX. Press pool reports it was crowded, hot and smelled of sweat. The detainees started shouting for attenion when they saw the TV camera. Pool photo: Mariam Khan, ABC.

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  4. 12 lip 2019

    VP Pence: "The DHS facility in McAllen is a prime example of why we need to secure our borders. The facility is overcrowded and our system is overwhelmed. It is time for Democrats in Congress to step up, do their jobs, and end this crisis."

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  5. 12 lip 2019

    Pool report from with and GOP lawmakers on trip to McAllen, Tx, border patrol station.

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  6. 12 lip 2019

    From Pence's visit to a border patrol station: "The stench was horrendous." "The cages were so crowded that it would have been impossible for all of the men to lie on the concrete." "The men said they were hungry and wanted to brush their teeth."

    Pool report from with and GOP lawmakers on trip to McAllen, Tx, border patrol station.
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  7. 12 lip 2019

    Pooler says the room where 400 men were caged did not feel air conditioned. Here’s the current temp in McAllen

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  8. 12 lip 2019

    VP saw 384 men sleeping inside fences, on concrete w/no pillows or mats. They said they hadn’t showered in weeks, wanted toothbrushes, food. Stench was overwhelming. CBP said they were fed regularly, could brush daily & recently got access to shower (many hadn’t for 10-20 days.)

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  9. 12 lip 2019

    Agent in charge said there wasn’t room for cots andthe facility didn’t have a shower but got a shower yesterday in an outdoor trailer. Some hadn’t showered for 10 or 20 days. Agent said no one had been there longer than 32 days, but some men told CNN’s Pam Brown and me they had.

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  10. 12 lip 2019

    The men said they were hungry and wanted to brush teeth. Most didn’t speak English but gestured at us. CBP said three meals are brought in a day & they can brush daily. Stench was horrendous. CPB said it is cleaned 3x a day. Heat was sweltering. CBP said it was air conditioned.

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  11. 12 lip 2019

    Facility we saw earlier in the day with children was new & relatively clean and empty. There were cots & medical supplies & snacks. Children watched TV and told Pence through translator they were being taken care of. But at least two said they’d walked for months to get here.

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  12. 12 lip 2019

    CNN's & are w/ as he tours border detention site. Pamela speaks w/ Pence shortly on . Detainees say they're hungry, held in caged cells for 40 days w/no showers/toothpaste. One yelled, “This isn’t human.” Reporters describe stench of urine.

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  13. 12 lip 2019

    Pence visited a crowded detention site in Texas for undocumented immigrants. “I knew we’d see a system that was overwhelmed,” VP said, per pooler . “This is tough stuff.”

    VP saw 384 men sleeping inside fences, on concrete w/no pillows or mats. They said they hadn’t showered in weeks, wanted toothbrushes, food. Stench was overwhelming. CBP said they were fed regularly, could brush daily & recently got access to shower (many hadn’t for 10-20 days.)
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  14. 12 lip 2019

    So what do you suppose the conditions are like when the VP & GOP lawmakers AREN'T coming to visit?

    Pool report from with and GOP lawmakers on trip to McAllen, Tx, border patrol station.
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  15. 12 lip 2019

    A few other images from inside:

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  16. 12 lip 2019

    Asked Pence afterwards if he was OK with what he said. On first two times, he didn’t directly say yes or no and said he expected to see it and wasn’t surprised. He later said he obviously wasn’t ok with it because he’d been trying to fix the system.

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  17. 12 lip 2019

    Toured the Donna Processing Center with and saw firsthand how even in the face of our overwhelmed facilities, is providing humane and compassionate care. Congress MUST reform our laws to end this unsustainable crisis of illegal immigration at the border.

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  18. 12 lip 2019

    Vice President Mike Pence toured a Border Patrol facility in Texas after reports that migrants detained are being held in dangerous conditions.

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  19. 12 lip 2019

    VP Mike Pence saw migrants sleeping on the floor & asked children in custody how they were being treated while visiting TX facilities Friday, weeks after a DHS OIG report described squalid conditions inside some detention centers. reports

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  20. 1 lip 2019

    A group of Democratic representatives visited various detainment centers at the US-Mexico border to take in the conditions firsthand. Their accounts describe a "humanitarian crisis.”

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