Texas migrant children moved from 'horrific cells' after outcry.

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▼ Some 250 migrant children have been moved from an overcrowded border station in Texas where they had been held for weeks.
Lawyers given access by a judge said the children were "severely neglected".
One of them told the BBC that children were "locked up in horrific cells where there's an open toilet in the middle of the room" where they ate and slept.
Many parents crossing the US border, most of them from Central America, were separated from their children in 2018.
Separately, border patrol in Texas reported the deaths of seven migrants this week who had apparently attempted to circumvent the immigration system – including two babies and a toddler.
What were the conditions like?
"There was nobody taking care of these children... they were not being bathed on a regular basis," Prof Warren Binford of Williamette University in Oregon told the BBC after visiting the Clint facility in Texas.
"Several hundred of the children had been kept in a warehouse that was recently erected on the facility grounds."
"The cells are overcrowded... there's a lice infestation there, there is an influenza outbreak. Children are being locked up in isolation with no adult supervision, who are very, very ill and they're just lying on the ground on mats."
Elora Mukherjee, another lawyer who visited the facility, told CBS News: "They were wearing the same dirty clothing they crossed the border with."
"It is degrading and inhumane and shouldn't be happening in America."
As stories of substandard conditions in facilities have continued to emerge, some volunteers have tried to donate supplies - only to be turned away by border officials.
One group told the Texas Tribunethey spent $340 (£267) on diapers, wipes, soaps and toys for the Clint facility, but were completely ignored by all the agents on duty.
Another Clint resident who tried to visit the Clint station told the Tribune: "Knowing what's happening in your community and that you can't give these kids supplies to clean or clothe themselves - it's heartbreaking."
Texas Democratic state congressman Terry Canales later tweeted that Border Patrol also told his office "they do not accept donations".
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