U.S. government now caging asylum seekers under the international bridge in El Paso, Texas

Photographs we're seeing online today, including one by Mark Lambie of the El Paso Times, below, capture the desperation of the unknown number of men, women, and children currently penned in, inside cages, under the Mexico-US international bridge, in El Paso, Texas.

This should have been the featured photo. The United States government is penning in asylum seekers under the international bridge in El Paso. pic.twitter.com/8CDc5MOZjr

— Brooke Binkowski (@brooklynmarie) March 28, 2019

Hundreds of migrants are being held beneath the Paso Del Norte International Bridge in El Paso. CBP says it has run out of space to process the asylum seekers. In the El Paso Times' photo above, two boys look out from the fence at the bridge as protestors demand their release.

As reported yesterday, most are from Central America, many are families, and some are in urgent need of medical attention.

Border Patrol holding asylum seekers in tent under bridge in El Paso. Calls it a "transitional camp." More than half are families, most from Central America, meaning their asylum requests and credible fear interviews must be heard, reports @abcnews https://t.co/ekCRCyft9B pic.twitter.com/mAP6VVkDjr

— Xeni Jardin (@xeni) March 27, 2019

Let's be clear about what we are witnessing in these images.

The United States government under Donald Trump is creating impromptu wire fence concentration camps for asylum seekers, as part of a manufactured border crisis driven by the Trump administration's white nationalist, white separatist, white supremacist policies.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin K. McAleenan visited El Paso today, El Paso Times reports, and said the border has hit its "breaking point."

The recent influx of Central American migrants has made the El Paso Sector the second-busiest location on the U.S.-Mexico border. Read the rest