A leaked video has put Mexico’s migrant-detention facilities at the center of an international scandal — raising questions not only about Mexico’s immigration policies but Washington’s, too.
MEXICO CITY — For years, human rights groups have complained about the dire conditions in Mexico’s migrant-detention facilities; the lack of drinking water, the stopped-up toilets, the shortage of medical care, the cells crowded far beyond their official capacity.Now a leaked video has put the facilities at the center of an international scandal — raising questions not only about Mexico’s immigration policies but Washington’s, too.
Yet as Mexicans demand answers from their government, the scandal has also put a spotlight on decisions by the Trump and Biden administrations to increasingly pressure Mexico to stop the growing number of U.S.-bound migrants. “They operate like prisons,” the statement charged — though illegal migration is an administrative offense in Mexico, not a crime.The facility in Ciudad Juárez is among them. The men’s ward was a large cell with white bars and a locked door, according to immigrant activists who have visited the center. Detainees there slept on mattresses on the floor, covered by foil emergency blankets, said Alejandra Corona, coordinator of services for the Jesuit Refugee Service in the city.
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