WASHINGTON _ California Rep. Doris Matsui confirmed some of the worst accounts of the border patrol centers housing migrant men, women and children who've crossed over the southern border, after visiting two facilities in Texas last weekend.
"It was just really kind of surprising in a way you can't steel yourselves for," Matsui, a Democrat in her 9th term in Congress, told McClatchy in an interview. "In some cases it felt like a third world country on our side of the border."
Matsui and a delegation of 19 other Democratic House members traveled to McAllen and Brownsville, Texas to visit Customs and Border Patrol processing centers as well as humanitarian organizations working with migrants seeking asylum in the United States. Matsui was born into a U.S. internment camp for Japanese-Americans during World War II. Her late husband, the former Congressman Bob Matsui, was also placed in one of the camps as a small child.
