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Behind the Bastards

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Border Patrol's Expansion of Detention Capacity

On May 11th, DHS announced that Title 42 would be enforced until 859pm Pacific or midnight Eastern. That same day, 500 active duty troops arrived in El Paso and a thousand more set off for other border towns to join the 2,500 troops already deployed to the border. Samodia recorded after a couple of hours walking around talking to people at San Isidro, where customs and border protection had detained around 500 people in between the 230 foot fences. They've just been given space blankets for a lot of people who are literally sleeping under bin bags right now on blankets. What food and water they have appears to be being supplied by volunteers on the northern side. There's one

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