Agents wore face masks, and video showed detainees packed into their holding areas surrounded by chain-link fence, the concrete floors littered with silver thermal blankets. Reporters accompanying Pence described the facility as smelling “horrendous.”
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A group of men detained behind chain link fencing shouted to news cameras, “No shower, no shower!”
Pence said afterward that what he saw was evidence of a “system that was overwhelmed.”
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