At the U.S.-Mexico border, Customs and Border Protection says it will reassign hundreds of agents to the port of entry in El Paso, as the agency faces a surge of Central American migrants seeking asylum in the U.S. The announcement came as CBP confined hundreds of migrant families behind a chain-link fence topped with razor wire in the parking lot of an El Paso Border Patrol station. This is immigrant rights activist Cristy Velez.

Cristy Velez: “We’re here to protest the inhumane conditions that the families are being kept in under this bridge. They are being kept behind cages and in tents. And the mothers are being treated very badly, the families are being treated very badly, and the children are being treated very badly. This is no condition to keep families and babies. And the rhetoric that’s being spread about these families is completely untrue, and it’s inhumane.”