Photo Gallery: How the crisis at the southern border unfolded, and spiraled out of control

As numbers, particularly of unaccompanied children, started rising, the Biden administration quickly found itself overwhelmed. A controversy quickly circulated around the conditions in a holding facility in Donna, Texas – where more than 4,100 migrants, mostly unaccompanied minors, were packed into the facility that had a capacity of just 250 during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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