Congresswoman tours migrant facility holding pregnant teens: ‘What are they hiding?’

During a recent congressional oversight visit to a migrant detention facility that holds pregnant youth in San Benito, Texas, U.S. Rep. Maxine Dexter, D-Oregon, says she didn’t see one child. Dexter says she was told that there were seven youth at the facility, which is overseen by the Department of Health and Human Service’s Office of Refugee Resettlement. That includes two who are pregnant, two who have just given birth and three non-pregnant girls, she said. But she says during her visit to the facility on Friday she didn’t actually see anyone, except for ORR management. “Well, we didn’t see any girls, and we had given notice that we not just wanted to tour the facility, but we wanted to be able to speak with some of these young women who are being detained there,” Dexter told Border Report after her tour. “The question in my mind is, what are they hiding?”