`They`re well-cared for`: Pence criticizes Democrats on visit to crowded migrant facility
(The Guardian United States)

The vice-president and eight Republican lawmakers toured two detention facilities in Texas FridayA 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`. Continue reading...