‘Nothing Prepares You for the Inhumanity of It’
Haunting.
Several United States lawmakers have used the word to describe what they saw during a visit to two Border Patrol processing centers in Texas yesterday, where they say they communicated with detained children through thick glass walls and met sobbing women who lacked access to running water.
“Nothing prepares you for the inhumanity of it,” Representative Madeleine Dean of Pennsylvania told me by phone today. Dean, a freshman Democrat and a former lawyer and professor from the Philadelphia area, was part of a crew of 14 Democratic lawmakers who visited the facilities in El Paso and Clint. The trip was organized by the Congressional Hispanic Caucus following media reports that 250 infants and children were being held in poor conditions in the latter facility, without access to enough food and water, or adequate sanitation.
[Read: ‘Children were dirty, they were scared, and they were hungry’]
The visit coincided with the release of exposing a secret Facebook group for current and former Border Patrol agents, in which members joked about the deaths of migrants, posted vulgar comments and images related to Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
