Border patrol under fire for refusing donations for migrant kids, but there’s a legal reason it had to decline
June 25, 2019 | Victor Rantala
The Texas Tribune has reported that a Border Patrol facility near El Paso is not accepting donations for migrant children being held there.
According to the publication, at least one small group of local citizens arrived at the facility on Sunday with a load of toys, diapers, medicine, and toiletries that they purchased from Target but that the lobby was closed.
A group of friends that included local resident Austin Savage were concerned by recent news stories that detailed overcrowding, illness, and substandard care at the facility, so they brought donations they said were worth about $340, as reported by the Tribune. They group said that several Border Patrol agents moving in and out of a parking facility “ignored them.â€
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