US relocates hundreds of migrant children from overcrowded border station

Authorities have moved some 250 children from an overcrowded border station in Texas where they had been held for weeks.

Lawyers given access by a judge said the children were severely neglected.

One of them told newsmen that the children were locked up in the horrific cells where there’s an open toilet in the middle of the room and they eat and sleep there.

Many parents crossing the US border were separated from their children last year following a change in policy.

Separately, border patrol in Texas reported the deaths of seven migrants including two babies and a toddler this week who had apparently attempted to circumvent the immigration system.