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1/ The migration crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border is ongoing. Follow this thread for the latest stories.
2/ @TheAtlantic explores the “border patrol-to-emergency room pipeline.”

"The conditions in facilities at the border are so dire that many migrants are in need of medical care as soon as they are released."

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3/ As an increasing number of asylum-seeking families cross the southern border, lawyers, doctors, and even government inspectors have criticized the facilities run by Border Patrol for being overcrowded and unsanitary. bit.ly/2LBdy5c
4/ @TheAtlantic spoke to one family who spent about six days in a Border Patrol detention facility.

Border Patrol policy says migrants are not supposed to be held there for longer than 72 hours. bit.ly/2LBdy5c
5/ We’ve reported on how cases of severe dehydration and overexertion among migrants are skyrocketing in deep South Texas as people push their bodies past the breaking point to get into the United States. bit.ly/2XT7A6m
6/ The Border Patrol's Rio Grande Valley Sector has seen a large spike in cases of rhabdomyolysis among migrants this year.

Agents say smugglers are to blame for treating migrants like "cargo." bit.ly/2XT7A6m
7/ About 30 migrants per day in the Rio Grande Valley are going to the emergency room. bit.ly/2XT7A6m
8/ “We are seeing every infirmity that you can name, from mumps to [tuberculosis], scabies. You name it, our agents are seeing it.” bit.ly/2XT7A6m
9/ Meanwhile, @politico reports that ICE is struggling to handle migrants with serious mental illness. politi.co/2JUTjMz
10/ Federal inspectors visiting a California migrant detention center last year discovered that detainees had made nooses from bedsheets in 15 of 20 cells in the facility they visited. politi.co/2JUTjMz
11/ One estimate puts the number of detainees with mental illnesses between 3,000 and 6,000.

Some advocates and lawyers who work with migrants in the facilities say it is probably more. politi.co/2JUTjMz
12/ Only 21 of the 230 ICE detention facilities offering any kind of in-person mental health services from the agency's medical staff, according to a 2016 agency oversight report. politi.co/2JUTjMz
13/ All the while, Border Patrol agents say they are frustrated and overtaxed.

"This is an impossible mission … We can't win with this situation. We're being set up for failure."

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14/ The @DallasNews reports that Border Patrol supervisors were so overwhelmed this spring they gave agents pre-checked and pre-signed medical forms that cleared unauthorized immigrants and asylum seekers for travel. bit.ly/2Y6cDM5
15/ Basically: The forms appear to have allowed the Border Patrol to bypass required medical checkups. bit.ly/2Y6cDM5
16/ Last week, The Trump administration issued its most far-reaching rule aimed at curbing asylum claims.

But legal and immigration experts say it could be blocked for a number of reasons. bit.ly/2LA1EbI
17/ That new policy aimed at disqualifying most asylum seekers is stirring anger and resentment among migrants who have followed the rules and waited months in Mexico. bit.ly/2Z7ptuG
18/ Another recent policy change: The Trump administration is expanding its “remain in Mexico" policy for migrants to the busiest part of the border. bit.ly/2Yndzj6
19/19 What’s the best journalism you’re reading about the border? Send it to us.
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