Overflowing Toilets, Bedbugs and High Heat: Inside Mexico’s Migrant Detention Centers

NYT via msn ^ | 04 Aug 2019 | Kirk Semple

[blueplum]

ACAYUCAN, Mexico — Migrants have been held in a wrestling arena, at a fairground and in government offices. They’ve been forced to sleep in hallways, on an outdoor basketball court, even directly on the hard ground.

Mexico’s detention centers have at times reached triple, quadruple and even quintuple their capacity. Detainees at some centers have endured extreme heat, bedbug infestations, overflowing toilets, days without showers...

[blueplum]

pardon my sarcasm if I ask when The Fraud Squad will be storming down to Mexico to give the Federales appropriately indignant and camera-ready tearful what-fors, for daring to become overwhelmed.

[mrsmel]

No, these lawbreakers aren’t forced to do any of this, they chose to break the laws of our nation with nary a pretense of respect, so when they land in a crowded detention center, they themselves created that situation.

[stanne]

I thought they were describing baltimore

[VTenigma]

I don’t care. If it reduces the incentive to break into this country and turn it into an s-hole then I’m all for it.

[mrsmel]

And they’re the ones who bring the damn bedbugs-and TB, plague, polio, other diseases which we’d either eradicated or never even had in the US-with them.

[wastoute]

The Brown Shirt Media seems fixated on the fact that there “are no showers at the camps”. I shudder to think of what the headlines will be once the government has responded to this criticism.

[mrsmel]

Same here. I only hope that the word about the terrible conditions-no red carpets, no automatic cash benefits and stolen IDs, all the other horrible things we force them to endure, by them illegally entering our country-spreads as quickly as formerly the word about what suckers Americans are, spread. Maybe the relevant governments could print up some picture pamphlets, along the lines of the ones they distributed about how to sneak into the US, only this time about the horrible conditions they will face because the mean Americans won’t pay them for breaking our laws.

[FlingWingFlyer]

It seems that these illegal alien invaders would be better off in Mexico waitng for their court date rather than moving into these detention centers.

[canuck_conservative]

They’ve been forced to sleep ... even directly on the hard ground

also known as "camping"

hmmm, we all survived

[King_Corey]

Of course they could always go back home...

Too easy?

They could always go to Venezuela...

Too socialist?

[heshtesh]

Overflowing Toilets, Bedbugs and High Heat: Inside Mexico’s Migrant Detention Centers

A couple more weeks and they’ll be homesick.....

[odawg]

The infrastructure to handle the immigrants on the border was never designed to handle the massive flood now entering. So of course things will not function properly.

The most obvious solution — stop the flow — for some reason is not an option.

[Drango]

Is the NYTimes calling Mexicans RACIST?

[Vigilanteman]

Or taking one of the jobs generously offered in the Mexican border cities . . . but no!

[Dutch Boy]

The goal does not seem to be to fix the problem. The goal is to exploit the problem. I think that is one of the many reasons they hate Trump. He is a fixer, not a politician.

[silverleaf]

Home sweet home

[Gay State Conservative]

IOW what they're experiencing is a step up...a HUGE step up...from what they left.

[kalee]

They could always go home if they don’t like the conditions they have created for themse!ves by coming here.

[jospehm20]

I don’t care about the appalling conditions “migrants” are held in. Bad conditions should be widely publicized. If conditions get bad enough and the wannabe illegal alien parasites know about it maybe they will quit trying to creep into our country.

[AmericanCheeseFood]

Nobody is forcing them to stay, they can go back to their own countries.