Conditions for migrants at a detention center in Texas are bleak and overcrowded

The World | Aug 4, 2014
The World's Jason Margolis got a rare tour of the detention facilities in McAllen, Texas, that houses unaccompanied migrant children and families from Central America. There's been a recent surge of such migrants this year, stretching the border's immigration centers to the limit.

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