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Earlier this month, @DHSOIG made surprise visits to a @CBP Border Patrol facility in El Paso.

Here's what they found: 750-900 migrants being held in a space meant for maximum 125.
@DHSOIG @CBP “The photos in this report make it clear that DHS has completely and utterly failed at handling the humanitarian crisis at the border... the Trump Administration is not just neglecting to address the crisis – they are, in fact, exacerbating it."

Chairman Thompson's statement:
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House Homeland Security Committee
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As to be expected, @realDonaldTrump lied many times when trying to justify his unlawful #FakeTrumpEmergency to get his border wall.

Here are the facts on just a few of them, because no matter how often he lies, we can't ever allow these brazen lies to go unchecked. 1/
TRUMP: "They say it all comes through the port of entry. It's wrong. It's wrong. It's just a lie."

FACT: Well, per @CBP, 90% of heroin, 87% of meth, and 80% of fentanyl seizures by border officials were trying to be smuggled across the border at legal ports of entry. 2/
TRUMP: *does the El Paso lies again*

FACT: The fence at the U.S.-Mexico border at El Paso went up after decades in a decline of crime in the already-safe El Paso. In fact, crime ticked *up* just a bit in El Paso shortly after the fence was constructed. 3/
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Rachel McGonagill
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This isn't the question we should be asking.

One thing that freaking concerns me about the description of the inside of these temporary tents: guard towers. Guard towers?

They ALSO have 24 hour surveillance equipment, but sure, prison it up, @CBP. 🤬

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@CBP Pictures, fam!

For some reason (prolly cuz there aren't any immigrants there yet) CBP let media types have a look around their New Giant Tent at the Donna, Texas POE, where they can detain up to 500 people--mostly families & unaccompanied minors.

Cc: @JeffMerkley Via @nytimes
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You think there's a reason they called CBP holding the "ice box"? 🤔
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Lola Netty
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IF YOU DO NOT BELIEVE THE CARAVANS EXIST... @TheDemocrats @SpeakerPelosi @chuckschumer @HouseDemocrats @SenateDems

Photos of the Central American Immigrant Caravan

theatlantic.com/photo/2018/10/…
DEMOCRATS NEED TO STOP LYING TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
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Good morning all! I'll be watching this hearing over the next couple hours. I'm tuning in now, during @RepJerryNadler's opening statement.

This is the second of several oversight hearings in the new Congress on family separation, something that is desperately needed. Stay tuned!
A powerful statement from @RepJerryNadler in his opening statement. "When a stranger rips a child from a parent's arms without any plan to reunify them, it is called kidnapping."

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Sally Hayden
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For the last 24 hours I've been texting & calling with refugees in Libya. 500 are apparently stuck in a Tripoli prison w/o food & water after heavy fighting broke out two days ago. They say their guards ran away, leaving them alone.
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Oh the phone earlier I could hear children crying & what sounded like bombing in the distance. The refugees say everyone's incredibly frightened. "We hear machine guns, tanks, big bombs, last night from the roof it was all fire."
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Mitra Ebadolahi
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THREAD on new 9th Circuit decision in Rodriguez v. Swartz, our (@ACLUaz @sdACLU + @ACLU) cross-#border shooting case: On Oct. 10, 2012, a U.S. Border Patrol agent on duty in Nogales, AZ fired between 14 & 30 bullets across the #border. aclusandiego.org/wp-content/upl…
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