New photos show overcrowded migrant detention facilities that Democrats have decried as 'inhumane'

Overcrowding in a Welasco, TX, Border Patrol station.
(Image credit: Office of the Inspector General)

Newly released photos from the Department of Homeland Security's Office of the Inspector General show overcrowded migrant detention facilities in Texas.

The facilities have been decried as "inhumane" by some lawmakers.

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Tim O'Donnell

Tim is a staff writer at The Week and has contributed to Bedford and Bowery and The New York Transatlantic. He is a graduate of Occidental College and NYU's journalism school. Tim enjoys writing about baseball, Europe, and extinct megafauna. He lives in New York City.