4,100 Illegal Immigrants, Mostly Children, Crowded in a Border Facility Intended for 250

Young unaccompanied illegal immigrants, from ages 3 to 9, watch television inside a playpen at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection facility, the main detention center for unaccompanied children in the Rio Grande Valley, in Donna, Texas, on March 30, 2021. Dario Lopez-Mills/Pool/AP Photo

Over 4,100 illegal immigrants, more than 3,400 of them unaccompanied children with some as young as 3 years old, were being kept in an overly crowded border facility in the Rio Grande Valley on Tuesday.

Two journalists from the Associated Press and a crew from CBS were allowed to visit the facility in Donna, Texas, in the Rio Grande Valley. It’s the first time during the Biden administration that journalists were allowed inside the main border facility for migrant children—the site was intended to hold 250 people.