Children Are Sleeping on Mats in Overcrowded Border Facilities
The Biden administration is struggling to find space for a surge of migrant children and teenagers that is almost three times the level seen early last year.
The Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in Dallas will be used to house some of the migrant children who have recently crossed the border. Credit...Tony Gutierrez/Associated Press
Migrant children are being forced to sleep on gym mats with foil sheets and go for days without showering as the Border Patrol struggles to handle thousands of young Central Americans who are surging across the southwestern border, some of them as young as a year old.