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Migrant Children Moved From Border Patrol Center After Outcry

Reports of children detained in crowded and unsanitary conditions long beyond the maximum legal limit have created a new controversy over the administration's immigration policies.

More than 200 migrant children detained in a remote Border Patrol station in southwest Texas without adequate food, water and sanitation have been moved after news of the conditions became public last week.

"This morning, my office was informed that only 30 children remain in the Clint Border Patrol station in Monday. She said that last week lawyers for Human Rights Watch had "found 255 children in beyond alarming conditions."

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