Border Camp In El Paso Is A ‘Hellhole’ Prison
This article features Government Accountability Project’s whistleblower client, Kaitlin Hess, and was originally published here.
Fort Bliss, a military base in the desert outside of El Paso is A ‘Hellhole’ Border Camp, according to a recent Vice News Article. Kaitlin Hess, a federal whistleblower, recounts her experience as a volunteer at the border, where she experienced firsthand the dangerous and chaotic conditions in the facility.
Last spring, Hess answered the Biden administration’s call for volunteers at the border.
Upon arrival, she noticed hundreds of children being packed into tents where they would be stuck for weeks on end, lost in the system. Kids were crying and depressed, frustrated amidst the confusion of being separated from close relatives and siblings.
“This feels like a prison,” Hess told VICE News.“That was after a week of being there, I was just like, ‘This is absolutely not right.’”
She was horrified with the place, thinking “this is not a place for children. This is not a place for adults.” It was way worse than she could have imagined.
And now a year later, her and five other federal whistleblowers are concerned little has changed at Fort Bliss and other “Emergency Intake Sites” created by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to care for migrant children in early 2021.
According to VICE News, on Tuesday, The Government Accountability Project, the group that represents the whistleblowers, ...
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