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July 10, 2019

Scabies, Shingles & Chickenpox Spreading Among Children at Clint, TX Migrant Jail
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Meanwhile, a new report from The New York Times and El Paso Times
details the ongoing dire situation at the Border Patrol station in
Clint, Texas, where hundreds of migrant children are locked up without
access to sufficient food, water, sanitation, beds or proper medical
care. Border agents reported spreading "outbreaks of scabies, shingles
and chickenpox" among the children. One staffer says he was ordered to
remove beds from children to make more space in the overcrowded cells.
The facility has been described by an expert who visited it as a "child
jail."


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