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themselves worried about riots. internal reports shows only four showers were available for 156 immigrants, over half of them were being held outside and immigrants were being kept in cells maxed at over five times their capacity. julia aimsly wrote this story with jake on soboroff. what else can you tell us about this report? it is shocking. they talk about cells that were meant for holding 135 adult men that were so crowded they couldn t even lie down and cells of that size sharing one sink and one toilet. you mentioned four showers for 756 people. this led people as well as children to have to be in the same clothes for days or even weeks. if that sounds familiar, chris, it s because we heard similar reporting from lawyers who got access to a border station in the same sector of el paso, texas. last week, though, the acting secretary of dhs said that those
conditions. some of the things they detail are 756 immigrants sharing four showers. there was a cell that was meant for 35 that they put 155 single adult men inside without enough room to lie down to sleep. half of the immigrants who are outside, there were children also outside, did not have mats to sleep on. and were wearing the same clothes they had been for weeks because no one was provided with a fresh change of clothing. and what this meant from an operations perspective, from the border agents, is they knew that conditions were so bad they feared riots, craig, and they started to arm themselves, bringing their weapons into areas that they would not normally bring them. what else is in that report? did they indicate that the situation along the border was at all normal? no, that was the this was the flag. this report prompted warnings within the department of homeland security to say this is a management issue. we ve known for some time there
people. the inspectors also discovered there were only four temporary showers in the entire facility. to be shared by 756 migrants. the details follow reports of horrifying conditions at other detention centers for children in the area. now a regular stop for 2020 contenders on the campaign trail. joining me now nbc news correspondent cal perry who spent most of last week in a facility in homestead, tracking the candidates who came through. but of course cal the focus since then has shifted to this facility in clint that julia ainsley has been reporting about and that we ve now seen some candidates start to visit as well. we re really shifting the focus to the border itself. that facility as you said in west texas in clint has been the focus of so much attention, so too just across the border in the city of juarez, mexico
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