The Biden administration is under intense political pressure from Republicans over immigration, who accuse the president of being too lenient toward migrants.

Now, the administration is locking up more unauthorized immigrants and asylum-seekers in detention facilities, and NPR has exclusively obtained more than 1,600 pages of confidential inspection reports examining conditions inside those facilities.

They describe barbaric practices, negligent medical care, racist abuse and filthy conditions.

NPR's Tom Dreisbach reports on the abysmal conditions detainees are forced to endure.

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