Walmart says it is disturbed that one of its former stores in Texas has been turned into a shelter for migrant children separated from their parents at the border.
The company responded on Twitter on Wednesday to people who were outraged by the Trump administration policy and who mentioned that the children are being kept in a former Walmart superstore.

"We're really disturbed by how our former store is being used," Walmart said in one tweet. "When we sold the building in 2016 we had no idea it'd be used for this."

The 250,000-square-foot facility in Brownsville, Texas, has since been transformed into the largest child migrant shelter in the United States, and the center of national outrage over the administration's treatment of immigrants.

Questions about Walmart's sale of the property have intensified in recent days as public furor has grown over the administration's "zero tolerance" policy.

The Department of Homeland Security said last week that the policy has resulted in the separation of at least 2,000 children from their parents at the border. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday that he said would keep families together.
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