The two camps, located in El Paso and Donna, Texas, were opened on Thursday and can each hold up to 500 people. A temporary solution for an area of the border that sees between 1,200 and 1,500 people a day.
Two new tent cities have emerged along the southwest border of the United States and Mexico in a move to accommodate the continued surge of immigrants headed to the U.S. from Central America.
Morris said the camps are a"band-aid" for the ongoing border crisis and the overcrowding at Border Patrol facilities. The tents include medical services, shower stalls, 48-inch flat screen televisions, DVD players and stacks of children's movies along with clothing, food and medical supplies. "The men and women of the U.S. Border Patrol have been doing everything in their power to prevent incidents like this," Ortiz said."And yet, callous smugglers continue to imperil the lives of migrants for financial gain.”
"Now with metering, they tell migrants, 'I can leave you here or cross you into the US via the river,'" Stephanie Leutert, director of the Mexico Security Initiative at the University of Texas at Austin told BuzzFeed.
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