Vice President Mike Pence saw firsthand the extreme overcrowding migrants are often forced to endure at federal detention centers when he visited two Friday in Texas.
Agents wore face masks, and video showed detainees packed into their holding areas surrounded by chain-link fence, the concrete floors littered with silver thermal blankets. Reporters accompanying Pence described the facility as smelling “horrendous.”
A group of men detained behind chain link fencing shouted to news cameras, “No shower, no shower!”
View the complete July 12 article by Dennis Romero on the NBC News website here.