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 ...
Where’s that tiny violin?
Tough hop.
Maybe word will spread far enough south of the border to convince potential illegals it's not worth the treacherous journey.
Then get out!
Send them back to their native lands, IMMEDIATELY!
NOT WELCOME HERE ANYWAY!
[[Migrants complain of poor conditions at US holding centers]]
Well maybe they should migrate to another country with better holding centers and more money to take care of them?
They are escaping their own countries because of ‘poor conditions’ well, let them run from the US because of ‘poor conditions’ too then
Way too kind. Get the F*** out!
See, America is a truly awful place. Y’all really should head home, eh?
AP thinks this gets sympathy instead of derision...
Wait. I thought the Democrats told us there was no crisis on the border???
No kidding, sad song/ teeny violin. They left their homes, expecting????
Come on Trump, close the border.
Enforce the tarrifs.
Deport them all.
That premie and the teen mom are gonna cost us millions to raise.
Agree, uhm how would they know what tough conditions are?
Ask them if they know about auschwitz
Well, they were talking about a “manufactured crisis” back last winter. Guess the Dems and media (one and the same) took their time to manufacture it to such exacting standards, right . . . ?
GO HOME!
Oh more lil loafs..they can get the F out of our country and go back to the sh*tholes they came from..but they want to stay here to get all the freebies the Dems promise them in return for their votes..I say kick them out, throw them back across the border, all the damn diseases they are bringing here, sick of it
Migrants are unhappy with the conditions and are threatening to go home... ( I wish!!! )
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.