Shocking New Images From The Border Show Things Are Worse Than Ever

New images from Donna, Texas, show just how things have become in the migrant detention center. Photos and videos reveal that conditions in which migrants are being held are unacceptable.

The holding pods are overflowing with bodies, some of them holding over 4,000 people. Thousands of children left abandoned have been transferred to HHS and hundreds more are coming in every day.

Since March, the facility has expanded and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has put greater emphasis on more quickly processing the migrant families and unaccompanied children who are kept in its facilities into the U.S. Numbers initially went down to the hundreds in April and May.

Unaccompanied children are quickly moved into Health and Human Services (HHS) custody, where more than 14,000 children and teenagers are currently in care, before they are released to parents or guardians already in the country.

On Thursday, more than 800 children were apprehended at the border, while 612 were released into HHS care. Overall, there was an 8% increase in UAC encounters between May and June, and a 25% increase of migrant family encounters.

Meanwhile, migrant families are being either expelled via Title 42 public health protections or processed into the U.S., often with just a notice to report to their local Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office when they arrive at their destination.

The Biden administration continues to blame things like poverty, violence, and climate change as the root causes for the extreme surge. Last week the White House announced a plan to tackle each of those causes and directed funding toward measures to combat violence and crime in Northern Triangle countries.