"Senator Merkley and his staff saw children in cages."

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10. Merkley: Migrant Kids Are Kept In Cages On Concrete Floor At TX Border Station

By Kate Riga | June 4, 2018 9:33 am

“They have big cages made out of fencing and wire and nets stretched across the top of them so people can’t climb out,” Merkley told CNN’s Alisyn Camerota of the McAllen border patrol station in Texas he toured on Sunday. “It’s just a concrete floor and people are being given these space blankets to sleep on. A space blanket is…the equivalent of foil. So obviously a very uncomfortable situation to be in.”

Merkley added that when he inquired about the draconian living conditions, he was given “generic” answers: “this is what’s required for security, this is what’s required for control.”

Later, when he attempted to tour an Office of Refugee Resettlement facility in Brownsville, Texas, where migrant children were being held, he was barred and police were called.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/merkley-sees-migrant-kids-kept-in-cages-barred-from-border-facility