This article originally appeared on Capital & Main.
Last year Elora Mukherjee described for the House Committee on Oversight and Reform what she witnessed at the migrant detention center in Clint, Texas. I saw children who were dirty. They could not wash their hands with soap because none was available, the Columbia University law professor said. Many had not brushed their teeth for days. They were wearing the same clothes they had on when they crossed the border. The same day of Mukherjee s testimony, Vice President Mike Pence declared that the two Border Patrol facilities he had visited in Texas were providing care that every American would be proud of.