The tour, which also included a visit to a Clint, Texas, facility, followed reports from a government watchdog that immigrants were being housed in overcrowded and unsanitary conditions. In June, immigration lawyers raised alarms over squalid conditions facing hundreds of children at another facility in Clint, Texas. MORALE PROBLEMSUS Border Patrol agents complain of being understaffed and overwhelmed with the surge of families at the US-Mexico border. Border Patrol officials say the agency recruits non-stop but cannot get the numbers of recruits it needs. That has brought morale problems in hard-hit sectors such as El Paso, media say.

Source: bd News24 July 02, 2019 03:22 UTC