In US facilities holding immigrant children, in violation of the law, no services are provided beyond food, water and very basic shelter.

This is judged as of June 2019. True if credible reports from that time (inspector general reports, court filings under the Flores settlement, attorney or monitor visit reports) show that US facilities holding immigrant children provided nothing beyond food, water and very basic shelter, and that this breached legal requirements such as Flores standards on hygiene, medical care, education or recreation. Mostly true if this held at the facilities the claim was about (for example CBP stations such as Clint, Texas) and services were essentially absent apart from minimal exceptions. Mixed if the conditions were documented at some facilities but others, such as ORR shelters providing education and medical care, did provide services, so the claim is only partly right as a general description. Mostly false if the conditions were seriously deficient but services clearly went beyond food, water and shelter, or if no legal violation was established. False if the facilities were shown to provide the services the law requires.

Set before the research began.

1. E1 OIG-19-51 - Management Alert - DHS Needs to Address Dangerous Overcrowding and Prolonged Detention of Children and Adults in the Rio Grande Valley DHS Office of Inspector General · 2 July 2019

   “For example, children at three of the five Border Patrol facilities we visited had no access to showers, despite the TEDS standards requiring that “reasonable efforts” be made to provide showers to children approaching 48 hours in detention.”

2. E2 OIG-19-51 - Management Alert - DHS Needs to Address Dangerous Overcrowding and Prolonged Detention of Children and Adults in the Rio Grande Valley DHS Office of Inspector General · 2 July 2019

   “While all facilities had infant formula, diapers, baby wipes, and juice and snacks for children, we observed that two facilities had not provided children access to hot meals”

3. E3 Almost 300 migrant children removed from Texas facility described as 'appalling' NBC News · 24 June 2019

   “Lawyers who recently visited two Texas facilities holding migrant children described seeing young children and teenagers not being able to shower for days or even weeks, inadequate food, flu outbreaks and prolonged periods of detention.”

4. E4 Confusion at the Border - FactCheck.org FactCheck.org · 3 July 2019

   “Representatives visited two locations (El Paso Station and Clint Station), where migrants in custody receive three meals a day and have access to clean drinking water.”

The evidence shows children lacked shower access at three of five facilities, measured against TEDS standards, and that facilities supplied formula, diapers, wipes, juice and snacks (E1, E2). It does not show whether TEDS shortfalls amount to a legal violation, or that services such as medical care, education or recreation were provided, so the claim cannot be settled under the criteria.