U.S. border officials close Texas warehouse where chain-link 'cages' for migrants became a symbol

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Source: Washington Post

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials have shut down the South Texas warehouse where chain-link enclosures were deplored as “cages” during the Trump administration’s crackdown on migrant families and children. The facility will undergo renovations until 2022, CBP officials said.

The chain-link partitions will be removed, and the warehouse will be redesigned to provide detained migrants with more humane conditions, CBP officials said. The renovations will take 18 months or longer, leaving border agents without a large-volume facility if a new migration surge occurs next year.

“The new design will allow for updated accommodations, which will greatly improve the operating efficiency of the center as well as the welfare of individuals being processed,” Thomas Gresback, a spokesman for the Border Patrol’s Rio Grande Valley sector, told The Washington Post.

The Obama administration opened the facility in 2014 after a record number of Central American families and children began streaming into South Texas, leaving U.S. agents and border stations dangerously overcrowded. CBP obtained a large warehouse and hastily converted it into a clean, air-conditioned processing center to accommodate the surge. Inexpensive chain-link fencing was used to create partitions in the cavernous space, but its grim appearance came to symbolize the dehumanizing treatment of migrants in U.S. custody.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/border-cages-removed-texas/2020/11/25/e2dc61aa-2e96-11eb-9c71-ccf2c0b8d571_story.html

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Full headline: U.S. border officials close Texas warehouse where chain-link ‘cages’ for migrants became a symbol of mistreatment

[beachbumbob]

1. may need then to house white militia terrorist members in the future

[PSPS]

2. For some reason, this reminds me of April 1945

[Initech]

3. May 11/7/20 forever be known in history as "V-T Day!"

Victory Over Trump!

[PSPS]

4. I was referring to what we discovered late in April 1945.

[Initech]

5. Oh yeah there is that.

I really wonder what horrors Biden will uncover. Next year's headlines should be pretty interesting.

[Marthe48]

6. It's a start

I have been worried about people caught in Central America during the hurricanes. Just horrible.

I don't understand why American citizens can't sponsor and host migrants, refugees or immigrants until they can get on their feet? It'd be so much better than facilities. People who are interested in sponsoring could go through a background check to be sure they are not going to exploit or harm people. Instead of walling up our homes and communities, we could be generous. I know it isn't realistic with Covid-19, but many of us would be happy to share our homes.

When my husband and I asked about taking in refugees from Bosnia, we found out that the government won't let you do that. I can think of so many benefits. We hosted exchange students. The U.S. State Dept. calls that effort personal diplomacy. Can you imagine the effect that hosting people in need would have on America's image? On top of that, American families who opened their homes to people in need could help them learn about American culture, help them learn how to navigate daily life, help them find apartments, get their paperwork and ID filled out, help the families get their kids in school. Maybe if the fearful Americans had a chance to meet people and families from other countries, they'd chill out a little.

I worry that 70 million people voted for impeached traitor and the outlook he has. How can the American ideal survive when so many people don't want it to survive?