Trump defends the conditions of detention in detention centers for migrants.

President Donald Trump seems to have come to a different conclusion than his own vice-president about overcrowded border detention. After visiting Texas places of detention, Vice President Mike Pence acknowledged that the conditions were not optimal. "No, it's not," Pence told CNN when asked if conditions in an overcrowded and nauseating detention center were acceptable. He also described the conditions as "difficult conditions", but insisted that he "was not surprised" by what he had seen. "I knew we would have seen an outdated system," he said.

Trump, however, did not bring any nuance to his firm's defense of detention centers on Sunday, spreading the message that if migrants want to avoid overcrowding, they should not go to the United States in the first place. "Sorry, I can not let them in our country" Trump tweeted. "If too many people, tell them not to come to the United States, and tell the Dems to fix the loopholes – problem solved!"

The President stated that the visit to the Pence facilities showed "how well managed and clean the child detention centers areAdding that they had "excellent reviews!" Trump then criticized the New York Times for its cover, noting that "the adult single men quarters were clean but cluttered" and seemed to justify the conditions by saying that they were "overburdened with a large percentage of criminals." "

Citing Trump's tweet, Washington Post's Josh Dawsey, who was touring the facilities with Pence, contradicted the president's assessment of the situation. "The men, huddled inside fences, slept in the concrete and said they had not showered for several days," Dawsey wrote on Twitter. "It was stifling and the stench was horrible."