Texas migrant detention center flu outbreak
By Meagan Flynn May 22 at 3:17 AM
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has stopped taking detainees at its main processing center in McAllen, Tex., after identifying “a large number” of migrants suffering from flulike symptoms, the agency announced late Tuesday. The move comes one day after a teenage migrant who had been held at the facility died after being diagnosed with the flu ...
A spokesman in the Rio Grande Valley Sector did not say how many migrants were affected by the illness. The McAllen processing center, a crowded warehouselike building where detainees are held behind fencing and sleep on mats, is among the busiest facilities along the southern border.
The outbreak comes amid severe overcrowding problems at migrant detention facilities in South Texas and heightened scrutiny of the conditions within them, as five child migrants have died in U.S. custody since December ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/05/22/mcallen-detention-center-flu-outbreak-teenage-migrant-died-custody/?utm_term=.d46dd4040038
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