Shelters face food shortages while one has 25 employees per child

NBC reporter Scott MacFarlane tweeted some bullet points from the DHS internal audit of the shelters housing the unaccompanied minor children who have crossed the border into the United States. The information is not encouraging.

Audit for Dept of Homeland Security reports: "employees have become ill from contact" w/ ill unaccompanied immigrant minors in DHS shelters

— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) July 31, 2014

Audit for Dept of Homeland Security: "Some problems identified" in DHS shelters for unaccompanied immigrant children. Including disease

— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) July 31, 2014

Internal Dept of Homeland Security audit: "temperatures inconsistent" inside emergency shelters for unaccompanied immigrant children

— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) July 31, 2014

Internal Dept of Homeland Security audit: 25 employees per child inside one emergency shelter for unaccompanied immigrant children

— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) July 31, 2014

Watch. Someone in the government will get a bonus for such an efficient allocation of resources.

Internal Dept of Homeland Security audit: "Chicken pox, scabies, TB" treatments needed inside emergency shelter for immigrant children

— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) July 31, 2014

Dep of Homeland Security audit: Federal agents contracted "scabies, lice & chicken pox" at Del Rio emergency shelter for immigrant children

— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) July 31, 2014

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@MacFarlaneNews @michellemalkin But hey, the US border is secure…

— Torcer (@TorcerT) July 31, 2014

Internal Dept of Homeland Security audit: Federal workers purchasing food with their own $$ to provide to immigrant children at US shelters

— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) July 31, 2014

Internal Dept of Homeland Security audit – Not enough prescription medications at 4 of the emergency shelters for immigrant children in US

— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) July 31, 2014

Internal Dept of Homeland Security audit: Not enough milk and juice available at 3 of the emergency US shelters for immigrant children

— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) July 31, 2014

Maybe if they weren’t paying 25 federal employees per child, there would be more money for food and medicine.

Here’s where 30K undocumented kids have ended up http://t.co/CWeyQgLScW pic.twitter.com/3OcVOs08bk

— Mic (@mic) August 1, 2014

Crazy.