Media Gets First Look At Children Inside Nogales Detention Facility
*An update, but little in the way of reporting on the conditions in which the children are living. They have showers, uniforms and an area to play. If you read between the lines, you realize that the government is trying to catch-up in it’s response to the crisis. VL
By Jude Joffe-Block, kjzz
NOGALES, Ariz. — On Wednesday morning, members of the media were allowed their first visit inside the Nogales, Ariz., processing center that is temporarily housing 900 children apprehended while crossing the border alone. Since May 31, the center has been used to accommodate a surge of Central American kids.
The tour comes after members of Congress, including Arizona Senators John McCain and Jeff Flake, put pressure on the Department of Homeland Security to open the facility to media. At the start of the tour, Customs and Border Protection officials announced a slew of rules: no interviews with children, officials couldn’t be quoted by name, no audio recorders.
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[Photo by Eugenio del Bosque, courtesy The Texas Observer]