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1/ “Outbreaks of scabies, shingles and chickenpox were spreading among the hundreds of children who were being held in cramped cells, agents said.” nyti.ms/2YFJd8A
2/ “The stench of the children’s dirty clothing was so strong it spread to the agents’ own clothing — people in town would scrunch their noses when they left work.”
3/ “The children cried constantly. One girl seemed likely enough to try to kill herself that the agents made her sleep on a cot in front of them, so they could watch her as they were processing new arrivals.”
4/ “‘It gets to a point where you start to become a robot,’ said a veteran Border Patrol agent who has worked at the Clint station since it was built.”
5/ “He described following orders to take beds away from children to make more space in holding cells, part of a daily routine that he said had become ‘heartbreaking.’”
