Clint (Texas)
Clint is a farm town of just under 1,000 people 20 miles south of El Paso .
There is a US government detention center for unaccompanied adolescents and children (detention camp). It serves to deport these adolescents separated from their parents to Mexico . According to reports from various lawyers, inhumane conditions exist in the camp.
From a statistical point of view, the location in the El Paso Metropolitan Statistical Area is taken into account.
4 quotes from the New York Times (2019/06/25 / us /…)
- In Clint, a farm town about 20 miles southeast of El Paso with fewer than 1,000 residents, there was consternation and dismay among residents at reports from lawyers who had visited the border station recently, who said they found that children as young as 5 months old Been housed with filthy clothes, dirty diapers and inadequate food.
- "Almost like a concentration camp," said Juan Martinez, who works at the Pride Fitness gym in Clint and heard about what was happening at the nearby station from news reports. “I mean, they're not killing them, but they're treating them like animals. They need basic hygiene. "
- From across the country, donations of diapers and other supplies began flowing in - though Customs and Border Protection agents said they could not accept outside supplies and initially refused the growing stockpile. More than a dozen people drove into South Texas from as far away as the West Coast to deliver aid and launch protests.
- Mr. Trump refused to take responsibility for the conditions facing migrant children and families at border facilities. "You know, they were built by President Obama, they are really not designed so much for children," Mr. Trump said in an interview in the Oval Office on Tuesday. "But you know, children can be there because we have no choice because of the laws, the laws are so bad."
Web links
- Corpse discovery at Clint: Death toll grows to 9 in El Paso-area canals after woman from Mexico found dead near Clint. Daniel Borunda in the El Paso Times on June 26, 2019 (corpse of a 19-year-old Mexican woman found in the canal system of Clint. So that already 9 dead ...)
- Ivan Pierre Aguirre for The New York Times By Arturo Rubio and Caitlin Dickerson: We're in a dark place - More than 100 children were returned to the facility, officials said Tuesday . nytimes, 2019/06/25 June 25, 2019, at Clint, Texas
Reference of the quotations
- Source, link to NYT, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/25/us/john-sanders-cbp.html
See also
- Detention Center in Tornillo , El Paso County , Texas