See drone video of a reported Texas 'tent city' for immigrant children
The drone footage from BBC News gives a bird's-eye view of the immigration saga.
Drone footage offers a unique look at a 'tent city' built to house migrant children in Texas https://t.co/7NOMpSb8Mv pic.twitter.com/lzgYUJ7b0d
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) June 22, 2018
Drone footage of what appears to be children walking into a "tent city" in Texas offers an overhead angle of the ongoing saga at the US border.
BBC News has posted the drone footage Friday, which shows a facility in Tornillo, Texas on the US-Mexico border.
BBC News correspondent Aleem Maqbool also posted two extended looks at the drone footage to Twitter.
A few hours ago, using a drone at the US-Mexico border in Tornillo, we got a view of children being trooped around the tent camp in which they’re being detained (after having been separated from their parents by US immigration officials). Video here… pic.twitter.com/xsXKQOaWB5
— Aleem Maqbool (@AleemMaqbool) June 22, 2018
Our clip, filmed by @p_murt using a drone at the US-Mexico border in Tornillo, showing children being filed into tents in the camp where they’re being held (having been separated from their parents by US immigration officials)…. pic.twitter.com/AjubbJjoKQ
— Aleem Maqbool (@AleemMaqbool) June 22, 2018
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday to stop separating children from some families crossing the US-Mexico border. The signing of the order marks a sudden shift by Trump, whose administration earlier this year enacted its zero tolerance policy on immigration, prosecuting anyone who attempts to enter the country illegally. That led to the government separating more than 2,300 children from their families. CBS News reports that roughly 500 children have been reunited with their families so far, according to a senior administration official.
The reunions come after a week in which the tech industry condemned the Trump administration for allowing the separations, and an image of a toddler crying at the border went viral on Twitter.
