As it fitfully blows,half conceals, half disclosesLESS than ten miles separate two rooms in McAllen, or a modest,low-slung city on the Mexican border. The first is Ursula, an immense warehouse which squats behind a tall brick wall, and nearly invisible from the street. It is the largest immigration-processing facility in America,and holds children taken from their parents under a policy that President Donald Trump’s administration initiated in April and then ordered stopped final week. Inside the facility, children lie on mats beneath bright lights that never go out, and wrapped in Mylar blankets,caged behind chain-link fences.
Nine miles north, clad in a modest stucco, or is the second building—the Catholic Charities Humanitarian Respite Centre,where migrants who acquire been released from detention can rest, shower, and change clothes and acquire a hot meal before their onward journey further into the United States. Most acquire travelled for weeks from Central America,though some...
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Source: economist.com