'Sense of hopelessness': Michael McCaul sounds alarm on border patrol mental health crisis
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House Foreign Affairs Chairman Michael McCaul spoke with Fox News Digital in the border city of McAllen, Texas after a day of seeing migrant facilities and speaking with border and immigration officials.
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McCaul said the state of the border is "just worse" each time he’s seen it. Follow on Twitter at @liz_elkind and send tips to elizabeth.elkind@fox.com
"Every time I come down here, it gets worse; the lack of detention space, the human tragedy you see here; what the Border Patrol has to deal with every day, day in and day out, looking at these migrants that are pouring in; this sense of hopelessness, that it won't stop," the Texas Republican said.
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