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‘Six Inches From Each Other’: Bipartisan Group Of Senators Decry Child Migrant Facilities, Demand Press Access At Border

Emily Zanotti
‘Six Inches From Each Other’: Bipartisan Group Of Senators Decry Child Migrant Facilities, Demand Press Access At Border
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A bipartisan group of senators is calling for the Biden administration to open up press access at the United States border after viewing several child migrant detention facilities that one Senator said he would not “want your child in for more than 10 minutes.”

The visit follows reports that the number of child migrants being held at the border is more than 300 times that originally reported, and that around 13,000 unaccompanied minors are currently in United States custody, overwhelming border patrol facilities and turning the situation at the United-States-Mexico border into a humanitarian crisis.

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