Pence Tours Detention Facilities

July 13, 2019 8:37 am

WASHINGTON (AP) – Vice President Mike Pence toured two detention facilities as part of an effort to show the Trump administration is providing adequate care for migrants, But the scene at a crowded Border Patrol station is sure to spark new criticism. At the Border Patrol station, hundreds of men were crowded in sweltering cages without cots. Some of the men said they were hungry and had been held there for 40 days or longer. Pence says: “Look, this is tough stuff.”