Immigration

Border agents feared riots at severely overcrowded border facility

By Tim Pearce
Published July 1, 2019 2:10pm ET
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Border agents feared riots at severely overcrowded border facility
In this March 27, 2019, file photo, Central American migrants wait for food in a pen erected by U.S. Customs and Border Protection to process a surge of migrant families and unaccompanied minors in El Paso, Texas. | (Cedar Attanasio/AP)

Border agents at an El Paso, Texas, holding facility for illegal immigrants feared riots breaking out because of the complex’s poor conditions.

Department of Homeland Security’s Office of the Inspector General reviewed conditions at the unnamed facility on May 7, according to an internal report obtained by NBC News. The inspectors found the facility severely overcrowded with many detainees lacking basic hygienic products, such as soap and clean clothes.

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