In El Paso on Wednesday, Kevin McAleenan, the commissioner of Customs and Border Protection, stood in front of the steel bollards that line the border between the United States and Mexico and warned that the border had hit a "breaking point."
As McAleenan addressed reporters at the border, elsewhere in the city, hundreds of asylum-seeking families were being held in a razor wire-surrounded enclosure under a bridge. Photos showed children and families standing behind chain link and military-style concertina wire, under the Paso Del Norte International Bridge in El Paso. CBP said that, with government detention facilities overwhelmed, it had nowhere else to hold the families but in the dirt under the pedestrian walkway.
On Thursday, families were still being held in the enclosure. Pedestrians walking over the bridge peered over the edge in amazement, where babies could be heard crying down below.
[For more on this story by JACK HERRERA, go to https://psmag.com/news/in-el-p...r-a-bridge-in-photos]
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