[2] Several hundred United States military troops established Base Camp Donna adjacent to the Port of Entry during Operation Secure Line in fall 2018.

[3] U.S. Customs and Border Protection opened an emergency staging center, officially called the Donna Soft-Sided Processing Facility, at the port of entry in early May 2019.

[6] Detained migrants are held in 125-bed pods, with each bed visible to a central guard tower, but with four-foot-high partitions between them to provide privacy.

During a brief encounter with visiting Vice President Mike Pence, overlooked by Border Patrol officials, several children at the camp told him they were being treated well.

They told us that they were being well taken care of.” He later criticized the media for not showing video from the Donna family facility, but only of hundreds of men crowded behind fences at the McAllen Border Patrol station.