Immigrants Are Being Forced To Sleep Outside On The Ground At This Texas Facility: 'Why Do They Treat Us Like This?'

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“We were all piled on top of each other on the pavement, we hardly slept,” one 14-year-old immigrant told BuzzFeed News.

US Customs and Border Protection has said its agents have been overwhelmed by the number of migrant families showing up at the southern border, forcing them to hold people in encampments like the one in McAllen because their facilities don’t have enough space. In April, Border Patrol detained 98,977 migrants, many of them families, who entered the US unauthorized between official border crossings, a number that continues to grow each month.

“We were mistreated,” Hernandez told BuzzFeed News in Spanish. “I thought the US treated people better, but they treated us so bad.”A volunteer explains to asylum seekers how to understand their bus tickets as they await for their bus at a station in McAllen, Texas, on May 15, 2019. And while they were grateful for the twice daily meals, Hernandez said the soggy ham sandwiches were almost inedible.

In order to deal with the influx, immigration officials have erected two new tent camps in El Paso and Donna, Texas, to house thousands of immigrants arrested at the border. In South Texas, including McAllen, Border Patrol started using aircrafts to relocate migrants to other parts of the border in order to start processing them, the Washington Post. Authorities have also installed similar tents outside Border Patrol stations in Brownsville and Rio Grande City to deal with the influx.

Officials, including Provost, have blamed federal court decisions that limit how long children can be held in detention, saying it’s a magnet for people considering crossing the border. The releases have been pejoratively called"catch and release" by President Trump and immigration hawks.

 

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The illegal immigrants come despite warnings that they will not be accepted, they come anyway, overwhelming a system Democrats won’t try to help and then complain about their accommodations, I have no patients or empathy for their foolishness

Imagine how the homeless veterans feel sleeping on sidewalks & in tents

They’re not immigrants yet tho. They have no rights.

For those at the border: I have no ability to help; except my vote. We know what he did to Alibi, a racehorse. We know he is no champion of basic human rights. We know he disregards the oath he took. We can only hope he is impeached and booted out.

Maybe they should go home then?

I’m all for having a nuanced conversation about this, but you can’t just say “immigrants” In your headline. That’s disingenuous and inaccurate

Im just waiting for them to start forcing these kids to work. These assholes give zero fuqs!

How were they living before that?

Did they not sleep outside on their journey to the US? Change the laws! Now!

If you do not like it go back Home

Normal people know why they get treated like that. It’s because the people making it happen are fucking racist.

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