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PHOTOS: See inside the tent city where migrant children are held after being separated from their parents at the US-Mexico border

Sinéad Baker,Sinéad Baker   

PHOTOS: See inside the tent city where migrant children are held after being separated from their parents at the US-Mexico border
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Tornillo Texas tent city migrant family separation US-Mexico border

Reuters/Mike Blake

Migrant children can be seen walking in single file through a tent city near the Mexican border in new photos that show where kids, many separated from their parents, are being detained by the US government.

The images show children playing soccer at the facility, as well as a medical clinic and rows of bunk beds in a dormitory.

The Department of Homeland Security is using a facility in Tornillo, Texas, to house boys who entered the US illegally. The facility houses unaccompanied minors who crossed the border, and children that have been separated from their families as part of the Trump administration's "zero-tolerance" policy to immigrants and their families who cross the border with documents.

Here's what life inside the tent city looks like:

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