{"id":650924,"date":"2018-11-29T19:43:40","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T02:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=650924"},"modified":"2018-11-30T12:55:26","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T19:55:26","slug":"no-one-on-the-inside-can-talk-about-whats-happening-at-the-tornillo-tent-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2018\/11\/no-one-on-the-inside-can-talk-about-whats-happening-at-the-tornillo-tent-city\/","title":{"rendered":"No one on the inside can talk about what\u2019s happening at the Tornillo tent city"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ivan Pierre Aguirre \/ for Reveal<\/p>

The detention camp in Tornillo, Texas, currently holds about 2,300 migrant children.<\/p><\/div>\n

TORNILLO, Texas \u2013 About 40 miles southeast of El Paso, past the billboards for fast food joints and rugged desert hills, residents of this small community sometimes can see the lights of the nearby detention camp glowing in the night.<\/p>\n

Some of them have brought gifts for the roughly 2,300 children<\/a> inside, only to be turned away by guards.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

When it opened in June, the detention camp in Tornillo, Texas, was meant to be a temporary home for children ages 13 to 17 caught crossing the border alone. But its population has grown, and a federal contract will keep it open at least through December.<\/p>\n