Nearly two weeks after reports emerged of alleged deplorable conditions at a Texas Border Protection facility, the head of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference said he wanted to tour the facility that had caused nationwide outrage over the treatment of migrant children for himself.

“I requested that the White House immediately grant me access to the detention center in El Paso, Texas,” Rev. Samuel Rodriguez said during a press conference Monday.

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Rodriguez, along with several pastors from around the country, spent an hour at the Clint Border Patrol Station in El Paso County, Texas last Friday.

“To my surprise, I saw something drastically different from the stories I’ve been hearing in our national discourse,” Rodriguez said. . . .

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One doctor who visited the Clint detention center, and another holding facility in McAllen, Texas, described the scene this way:

“The conditions within which they are held could be compared to torture facilities,” Dr. Dolly Lucio Sevier, reportedly wrote in a medical declaration obtained by ABC News. . . .

Rev. Rodriguez pushed back at those claims, saying such conditions did not exist when his group visited the Clint facility.

“We found no soiled diapers, no deplorable conditions and no lack of basic necessities,” Rodriguez said. “We toured the entire facility.”

Rodriguez admitted he was skeptical and repeatedly pressed authorities at the detention facility to make sure that the current conditions they were witnessing were in fact the same conditions as when the lawyers and doctors visited the facility.

“I asked whether or not this was all being staged; Did they just pivot based upon the reporting, did they shift things, did they make modifications in order to accommodate or to respond to the reporting?”

Rodriguez said he wanted to know whether authorities even staged things for groups like his.

“They unequivocally denied it,” Rodriguez said. “What they stated was that every condition we were witnessing was the identical condition in the center when the attorneys arrived.” . . .

During the press conference, Rev. Rodriguez was pressed by CBN News reporter Heather Sells on allegations that children at the Clint detention center slept on concrete floors.

“I asked to see absolutely everything, including all the sleeping facilities and we did,” Rodriguez said in response. “No one sleeping on cement whatsoever, that I can attest to, no one, there were cots, 3 tier cots.”

Rodriguez is urging the White and Congress to move quickly to solve the crisis at the border.

“I am asking the President to please, in the Name of Jesus, ‘Please President Trump…work with the Republicans and the Democrats…please come together and solve this crisis immediately.'” (Excerpt from CBN News.)

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