Thread by @ReichlinMelnick

These images, which look so much like 2019, are a reminder yet again that CBP has had SEVEN YEARS to get its act together.

Congress keeps pouring billions into more agents, more tech, and more wall. But that won't do anything to stop scenes like this. We need a better system.

https://twitter.com/NicoleSganga/status/1376980799833116672

These are images of children held in filthy Border Patrol cells in 2014, packed in like sardines. They were leaked to Breitbart by Border Patrol officers to make a splash against the Obama administration.

This is the first time that "hieleras" at the border made national news.

These are images of people packed into Border Patrol cells in 2015, revealed as part of a lawsuit @immcouncil and other organizations brought against the Tucson Sector Border Patrol.

At the time, no one even got mats. They slept on the concrete floor.

This is an image inside the "Perrera" (the dog kennel) in south Texas in 2018, just days after family separation was halted by a court.

Once again, children were sleeping on the floor for days.

Then in 2019, we saw the worst overcrowding in years, and the appalling pictures of families and children yet again shoved into chain-link fence cages and cells in horrific conditions... and still no major changes were made!

Now it's 2021 and once again we're getting horrifying images of people locked in Border Patrol custody.

It's been SEVEN YEARS, and the most CBP has done is stand up a few tents and give people mats to sleep on.

It's time for a new system, one that treats people with dignity.