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Border Patrol: Briefly Visit and Foil Sheets

border patrol: Scattered about are bottles of water, bags of chips and large foil sheets intended to serve as blankets, according to The Chronicle Herald. One teenager told an advocate who visited that she was helping care for a young child she didn't know because the child's aunt was somewhere else in the facility. One cage had 20 children inside. She said she had to show others in her cell how to change the girl's diaper. More than 1,100 people were inside the large, dark facility that's divided into separate wings for unaccompanied children, adults on their own, and mothers and fathers with children. The U.S. Border Patrol on Sunday allowed reporters to briefly visit the facility where it holds families arrested at the southern U.S. border, responding to new criticism and protests over the Trump administration's zero tolerance policy and resulting separation of families. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.