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Young unaccompanied migrants, from ages 3 to 9, watch television inside a playpen at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection facility, the main detention centre for unaccompanied children in the Rio Grande Valley, in Donna, Texas
MIGRANT children at a United States border detention centre in Texas are living in “heartbreaking” conditions with diseases, dangerous food, neglect and sexual abuse, an investigation has revealed.
The BBC interviewed staff and children at the tented camp in the Fort Bliss military base in El Paso, where over 2,000 teenaged children who have crossed the US-Mexico border alone are waiting to be united with family in the US.
The children are divided into about 12 tents, with some cramming hundreds together, and only have an hour or two of recreation time outside.
Groups are urging the US government to secure the 16-year old’s release as his mental and physical health decline dramatically after nine months inside Ofer prison, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Calls have been made for the return to Venezuela of a two-year-old girl currently being held in the US, after being separated from her family by immigration officials, reports SUSAN GREY
