About 250 migrant children were moved from a border station in Texas earlier this week after lawyers said they were being “severely neglected”, and gave reports of open toilets in cells, lice infestation and an influenza outbreak. But now more than 100 have been returned to the facility in Clint, just outside El Paso, after it made changes to alleviate overcrowding.
The acting commissioner of Customs and Border Protection is to leave his post on 5 July. Meanwhile, the number of immigrants apprehended at the US-Mexico border has reached its highest level since 2006.
The situation has led to a huge row in Washington over funding and policy. We look at why children and their families are being separated.
Speaking to the BBC, one lawyer describes conditions at the Clint facility as “the most degrading and appalling” imaginable.
