U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents spend their days running the arriving unaccompanied alien children, or UACs, to the showers, bringing blankets to the launderers, preparing food and making trips to grocery stores.
These activities and more, including providing video games to the UAC’s, were extensively documented in a University of Texas at El Paso study titled “Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC) Project.” The research was funded by and partnered with the Department of Homeland Security. Continue reading “Border agents’ new jobs: Shower runs, food prep, laundry service”