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Migrants complain of poor conditions at US holding centers
Associated Press ^ | June 14, 2019 | Cedar Attanasio

Posted on 06/14/2019 8:57:29 PM PDT by Olog-hai

The Trump administration is facing growing complaints from migrants about severe overcrowding, meager food and other hardships at border holding centers, with some people at an encampment in El Paso being forced to sleep on the bare ground during dust storms.

The Border Network for Human Rights issued a report Friday based on dozens of testimonials of immigrants over the past month and a half, providing a snapshot of cramped conditions and prolonged stays in detention amid a record surge of migrant families coming into the U.S. from Central America.

The report comes a day after an advocate described finding a teenage mother cradling a premature baby inside a Border Patrol processing center in Texas. The advocate said the baby should have been in a hospital, not a facility where adults are kept in large fenced-in sections that critics describe as cages.

“The state of human rights in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands is grave and is only getting worse,” the immigrant rights group said in its report. “People are dying because of what is happening.” …

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Mexico; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: aliens; border; buildthewall; crymeariver; elsalvador; fakenews; guatemala; holdingcenters; honduras; illegals; mexico; trump
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To: Olog-hai

And “what is happening” is:

These people are invading our country.

Home should be there destination. Nothing is stopping them from going home.


21 posted on 06/14/2019 9:14:18 PM PDT by Maris Crane
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To: Olog-hai

Stay home.


22 posted on 06/14/2019 9:18:49 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: Olog-hai
Just tell them,

"Click your heels together three times and say 'There's no place like home'"
23 posted on 06/14/2019 9:21:07 PM PDT by clearcarbon
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To: Olog-hai

These people would still be complaining even if we put them in a clean air-conditioned jail cell with clean sheets once per week, pancakes for breakfast and fried baloney sandwiches for dinner.


24 posted on 06/14/2019 9:23:48 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: Olog-hai

Let’s see; beggars can’t be choosers so go back home where you had it so much better


25 posted on 06/14/2019 9:26:02 PM PDT by drypowder
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26 posted on 06/14/2019 9:26:54 PM PDT by Viking2002 (Free James Woods!!!)
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To: Olog-hai

That’s what happens when you try to bumrush a country’s border. These guys got to be kidding.


27 posted on 06/14/2019 9:32:17 PM PDT by Bullish (My tagline ran off with another man.)
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To: Olog-hai

No worries, libs will show up soon with sammiches, Nikes, phones and EBT cards.


28 posted on 06/14/2019 9:37:10 PM PDT by bluejean (I'm becoming a cranky old person. It really annoys me.)
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To: Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; 2ndDivisionVet; azishot; ...

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29 posted on 06/14/2019 9:39:35 PM PDT by bitt (I donate all my chips to erecting electric bleachers in Gitmo!)
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To: Sarah Barracuda
Well what part of Trumps warning to these people MONTHS AGO did they not understand!

"DON'T COME HERE, WE'RE FULL!"....PRES. TRUNP


30 posted on 06/14/2019 9:40:10 PM PDT by caww
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To: mass55th

OUR tax dollars at work..

did you see Tucker’s segment about how we’re paying for a separate facility for trans illegals being held during their wait?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kj_SP1jJL8

start at min 23:00


31 posted on 06/14/2019 9:41:10 PM PDT by bitt (I donate all my chips to erecting electric bleachers in Gitmo!)
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To: Olog-hai

It’s gotta be a zillion times better than where they came from


32 posted on 06/14/2019 9:41:38 PM PDT by yldstrk (Bingo! We have a winner!)
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To: Olog-hai

Dis is not what we expected. So sad too bad, as my dad used to say to me whenever I complained about something. 8>)


33 posted on 06/14/2019 9:42:09 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: Olog-hai

What, they did not get their steak and eggs?


34 posted on 06/14/2019 9:43:54 PM PDT by TrumpisRight (It is --> President Trump <--)
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To: Olog-hai

GTFO


35 posted on 06/14/2019 9:44:53 PM PDT by dinodino
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To: eddie willers

Break out the crying jap girl.

They know where they can go. Give them a boost.

Toughsky Shitsky.


36 posted on 06/14/2019 9:45:35 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just hava few days that don't suck.)
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To: Olog-hai

Go back to your hell hole and fix it Jose.


37 posted on 06/14/2019 9:45:38 PM PDT by FreedomGuru (Islamic terrorism it's "science")
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To: Olog-hai

Some bad reviews on TripAdvisor.com might be just what the place needs. Lol.

What were they expecting? Las Vegas?


38 posted on 06/14/2019 9:47:43 PM PDT by OrangeHoof (Trump is Making the Media Grate Again)
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To: Olog-hai

We need to have their complaints aired on international TV, especially in their home countries. It is so horrible, don’t come!


39 posted on 06/14/2019 9:52:49 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: Olog-hai

Conditions s*ck? Oh well, too bad.

Go home, lawbreakers!


40 posted on 06/14/2019 9:53:49 PM PDT by RooRoobird20 ( "Democrats haven't been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves”)
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