By Laura C. Morel and Patrick Michels/Reveal
TORNILLO, TEXAS – About 40 miles southeast of El Paso, past the rugged desert hills and billboards for fast food joints, residents of this small community sometimes can see the lights of the nearby detention camp glowing in the night.
Some of them have brought gifts for the roughly 2,300 children inside, only to be turned away by guards.
Months after the government erected a tent city in the desert, most of what happens inside the encampment remains hidden, even from curious neighbors in the nearby town of 1,600 residents. The only images of the minors in the camp, standing outside in an orderly line or playing soccer, have been released by the Department of Health and Human Services.
Posted on November 29, 2018