The vice-president and eight Republican lawmakers toured two detention facilities in Texas Friday
A visit by the US vice-president, Mike Pence, to migrant detention stations along the country’s southern border highlighted the sharp disconnect between Democrats and Republicans on immigration – and the Trump administration’s efforts to spin on conditions in camps deplored by human rights experts and the government’s own watchdog.
Traveling in Texas on Friday, Pence painted a far rosier picture of conditions in the detention centers than lawyers and several Democratic lawmakers have done, criticizing Democrats’ accounts as “harsh rhetoric”.
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