This is what the Biden administration doesn’t want the public to see.
Cuellar did not take the photos himself, he did say that they were from this past weekend.
His office says each of the eight “pods” in the facility has a 260-person capacity, but over the weekend at least one of the pods held more than 400 unaccompanied male minors.
Cuellar described the setting as "terrible conditions for the children".
The Biden administration has refused to allow journalists into these facilities.
James O’Keefe with Project Veritas also released photos they say were also taken inside the Donnas facility.
Project Veritas also reported that migrants within the facility have tested positive for COVID-19.
Photojournalist John Moore blasted the administration over their lack of transparency writing in the Washington Post that Biden’s White House has a “zero access policy” for journalists.
“For the past four presidential administrations, I have accompanied U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents and photographed their encounters with migrants as they enforced immigration policy. No longer. Last week, when I documented migrant detentions in El Paso, I had to do so from the Mexican side of the border, taking long-range shots. Until now, journalists haven’t had to stand in another country to cover what is happening in the United States.
Most asylum seekers cross the Rio Grande into South Texas on land controlled by federal agents. For decades, the U.S. government has let journalists accompany Border Patrol agents and other officials as they surveil the land. But since the change in administration, those agents have been physically blocking journalists from the riverbank. For example, after being turned down for official access on a trip in February, I followed a Border Patrol transport bus in my own vehicle to where agents were detaining migrants. They stopped me before I got close enough to take pictures. They called a supervisor, and ordered me to leave immediately.
We have gone from the Trump-era “zero tolerance” policy toward immigrants to a Biden-era “zero access” policy for journalists covering immigration. This development is unprecedented in modern history.”