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Texas migrant facility at 729% capacity, with minors reportedly taking turns sleeping on floor

By Emma Colton
Published March 14, 2021 8:16pm ET
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Texas migrant facility at 729% capacity, with minors reportedly taking turns sleeping on floor
This May 29, 2019 photo released by U.S. Customs and Border Protection shows some of 1,036 migrants who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border in El Paso, Texas, the largest that the Border Patrol says it has ever encountered. | (U.S. Customs and Border Protection via AP)

A migrant facility in Texas was at 729% pandemic-era capacity at the beginning of March, as an influx of unaccompanied minors continues along the southern border.

“Some of the boys said that conditions were so overcrowded that they had to take turns sleeping on the floor,” Neha Desai, a lawyer representing migrant youth in U.S. government custody, told CBS News.

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