No matter what they try to tell us about the Detention Centers - The truth has now been FOIAed

[kpete]

Here’s the relevant portion of the IG report on El Paso border stations, which was the result of a FOIA and not previously made public:

Click here to read the report
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6178541-FinalDocumentsRedacted.html



Agents feared riots, armed themselves because of dire conditions at migrant facility, DHS report says
The findings counter the statement by a top Trump admin official that reports of poor conditions for migrants at border stations were “unsubstantiated.”

— The government’s own internal watchdog warned as far back as May that conditions at an El Paso, Texas, border station were so bad that border agents were arming themselves against possible riots, countering Friday’s assertion by a top Trump administration official that reports of poor conditions for migrants were “unsubstantiated.”

In an internal report prepared by the Department of Homeland Security's Inspector General and obtained by NBC News, inspectors noted during a May 7 tour of a border station in the El Paso sector that only four showers were available for 756 immigrants, over half of the immigrants were being held outside, and immigrants inside were being kept in cells maxed out at over five times their capacity.

Border agents remained armed in holding areas because they were worried about the potential for unrest, the report said.

Agents typically put their weapons in a lockbox when they enter holding areas, a DHS official said.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/dhs-warned-may-border-station-conditions-so-bad-agents-feared-n1025136

[Tech]

1. Horrible but important to read.

[gratuitous]

2. The claims are unsubstantiated because the administration won't let anyone in

The Bart Simpson "nobody-saw-me-you-can't-prove-anything" defense. I'll bet, however, that in the next several weeks we hear more about Lisa Page and Peter Strzok than we do about the concentration camps. Then we'll get the media song-and-dance about how they aren't reporting on our home grown gulags because the public has given the administration another pass on an important matter. "Now, here's Chad with the latest on the FBI Lovers' E-Mails."