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Eugene

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Sun Jun 23, 2019, 05:40 PM Jun 2019

Migrants describe overcrowded Mexican detention centers as Trump ratchets up pressure

Source: Reuters

WORLD NEWS JUNE 23, 2019 / 7:14 AM / UPDATED 15 MINUTES AGO

Migrants describe overcrowded Mexican detention centers as Trump ratchets up pressure

Delphine Schrank
7 MIN READ

TAPACHULA, Mexico (Reuters) - Mexico’s immigration centers are becoming increasingly squalid and overcrowded as authorities step up the detention of migrants headed for the United States, with inmates languishing for weeks amid medical neglect, according to detainees, lawyers and rights groups.

Reuters spoke to more than a dozen recent detainees at the Siglo XXI detention center, the country’s largest. They described being held in the facility in Chiapas state on Mexico’s southern border for long periods without information about their cases.

The detainees reported severe overcrowding, sparse water and food, and limited healthcare.

Their accounts were supported by two lawyers representing 26 other inmates, as well as the migration ombudsman at Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission and reports from two migrant rights groups: Fray Matias de Cordova and the Human Rights Observation Mission for the Refugee and Humanitarian Crisis in Southeast Mexico, a collective of 24 aid groups.

Twelve of the detainees told Reuters they were held for at least three weeks in the center, meant to hold people for a maximum of 15 days until their cases are processed.

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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mexico-immigration/migrants-describe-overcrowded-mexican-detention-centers-as-trump-ratchets-up-pressure-idUSKCN1TO0DF

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Migrants describe overcrowded Mexican detention centers as Trump ratchets up pressure (Original Post) Eugene Jun 2019 OP
and our VP told us in a CNN interview today locks Jun 2019 #1

locks

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1. and our VP told us in a CNN interview today
Sun Jun 23, 2019, 09:22 PM
Jun 2019

it was heartbreaking to see the children in camps on the US border. How would he know, he has about as much heart as his heartless and soulless boss.

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