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Media Gets First Look Inside Severely Overcrowded Migrant Facility In Texas

'Pods' designed to house 32 migrants now holding 500-600

Joseph Curl
Media Gets First Look Inside Severely Overcrowded Migrant Facility In Texas
DARIO LOPEZ-MILLS/POOL/AFP via Getty Images

After weeks of denying journalists access to an overcrowded migrant facility at the U.S.-Mexico border, reporters were finally allowed in to get their first look.

A pool of selected reporters and photographers was allowed into the center in Donna, Texas, where more than 4,000 migrants are held. Some 3,400 are unaccompanied minors. Photos show migrants packed into plexiglass pods, strewn with shiny Mylar blankets.

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