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On the recordJuly 10, 2019
Sure. No speaking to the kids there; no photos. And then we were given kind of a song and dance about how well everybody was treated. These young people hailed from Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador, countries that we hear over and over because of the strife from drug cartels down there that are warring. I saw six to eight beds per room, sometimes more, in rooms that couldn't be any bigger than 10 to 15 by 15, with shared showers between two of those rooms. And then I saw classrooms and recreation facilities in giant makeshift tents, these big, kind of puffy ones that were clearly not permanent facilities.
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Darren Soto
Democratic · Florida
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Jul 10, 2019

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