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This facility
right here is the centralized

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processing center in McAllen, Texas,
for RGV sector.

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Right now,
we're standing in front of the Sally Port

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at the centralized processing center
in McAllen, Texas.

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The mission of the Sally port
is for the unloading

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and offloading of detainees
in our custody.

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A year and a half ago, this facility,
this portion of the facility didn't exist.

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It was wide open.
There was no covered roof.

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So now we have this covered roof available
to us.

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We're able to move busses
in and out of here.

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It's an easier flow of traffic
and it provides safety

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as well.

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Currently, we're standing right

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in front of the initial intake
portion of the facility.

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And the purpose of this

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this area here is that once
a migrant gets offloaded from the busses,

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they go through the screening process
with our medical staff

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and then they come in here and the agents

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take their biographical information
and their fingerprints.

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At that time, there's a set of agents
that will work on records checks.

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Once all of that's been captured,
they will assign a room.

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And the rooms
here, the beauty of the rooms here.

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In the past, we didn't have a measurement

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of the temperature,
the CO2 levels or the humidity.

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And we've been able to leverage technology
and be able to places

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placards on the outside of the doors
that measures each one of those things.

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Right now, we're standing in

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front of a portion of the processing area.

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This portion here is a more in-depth
processing portion of the of the facility.

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And by that, I mean, once
the detainee comes into custody

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and we do the initial intake,
fingerprinting and records checks,

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once the record checks return,
the agents are able to figure out

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what the final disposition is on each
one of the persons

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that we're processing
through our facility.

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And that's what this area is for.

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If you notice here in the past,
we didn't have this.

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The screens here, the plexiglass,
which some folks refer to

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as sneeze guards, but this protects
both the detainee and the employee

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from any communicable diseases
that could be transmitted.

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During a face to face contact,

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every migrant that comes into our facility
gets an opportunity to shower

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when they're given
that opportunity to shower.

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They're also given a temporary set
of clothing which is on these racks here.

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Their clothes gets laundered
and then it gets returned to them

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in the event that their clothes are soiled
beyond measure where it's unusable

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or on laundry.

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They're able to keep a top,

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bottom and a pair of shoes.

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We're standing right now inside a wing

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that's got several rooms where we hold

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migrants of different demographics.

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And they're put here
after the completion of processing

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before they're actually taken outside
of the building.

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Currently, we're standing inside
one of the wings

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on the 55,000 square foot
site of the facility.

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And each one of these wings has different
rooms as you can see in here.

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And depending on the demographic.

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That's how we separate who goes in
which room.

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The television monitors
that you see here are set up

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so that each one of the rooms
inside this wing.

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Each one of the individuals
in each one of these rooms

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is able to see what's going
on, the rights that they have.

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Prior, we used to have posters on the wall
and those eventually

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get warm and tattered.

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But this allows the technology,
as I mentioned earlier,

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this allows us the capability
to be able to run it on a loop.

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The control desk that you see behind me
is color coordinated,

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and it's associated with each
one of the wings inside the facility.

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The agent that's assigned to that area,
it has command

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and control of the cell doors.

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Each one of the rooms has two doors,
one emergency door

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and one actual door
that is used to move people in and out of.

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And they also have the capability

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just to see every single camera
in each one of the rooms.

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The initial medical intake process
allows for our medical personnel

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to be able to get a basic

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assessment of each

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individual that comes into our custody.

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The room that we're standing in here
allows for a more private setting

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in the event
that a migrant has a condition

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which they feel
that that needs to be addressed by medical

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personnel.