Exclusive: Border Agent Gives Inside Account of Overcrowded Facilities

U.S. Border Patrol agents apprehend about two dozen illegal immigrants in Penitas, Texas, on March 11, 2021. Charlotte Cuthbertson/The Epoch Times

The family-unit holding cells smell like urine and vomit. Fights break out in the unaccompanied-minor cells. Scabies, lice, the flu, and COVID-19 run rampant.

Up to 80 individuals are squeezed into each 24- by 30-foot cell, and there aren’t enough mattresses for everyone. Sheets of plastic divide the rooms.