Posted on 07/14/2019 7:52:03 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Vice President Mike Pence, accompanied by Republican senators including Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-SC), visited two detention facilities near the U.S.-Mexico border where migrants were being held on Friday. Pence visited one center in Donna, Tex. where men were being held in addition to a McAllen facility where children were detained.
The account from pool reporter Josh Dawsey of the Washington Post, who accompanied Pence into the facility in Donna, is chilling:
After negotiating with the VP’s office, pool was taken into an outdoor portal at the McAllen Border Station around 5pm, where almost 400 men were in caged fences with no cots. The stench was horrendous.
The cages were so crowded that it would have been impossible for all the men to lie on the concrete. There were 384 single men in the portal who allegedly crossed the border illegally. There were no mats or pillows—some of the men were sleeping on concrete.
When the men saw the press arrive, they began shouting and wanted to tell us they’d been in there 40 days or longer. The men said they were hungry and wanted to brush their teeth. It was sweltering hot. Agents were guarding the cages wearing face masks.
Dawsey also noted in his report in the Washington Post that the only water available to migrants was kept outside the fences where they were held and that they had to ask Border Patrol every time they wanted a drink.
In a video of the visit, it appeared that Pence did not speak with any of the migrants, only talking with a Border Patrol officer and turning away from the men who were shouting, “No shower! No shower!”
(Excerpt) Read more at rollingstone.com ...
I don’t really believe this, but if you don’t like it, don’t come here.
What cruelty? Who is forced to stay in inhospitable conditions? The door headed south isn’t locked. Go home, fix your country.
The locals that catch them beat the crap out of them. Their stuff is taken from them. Then the authorities gtthem and beat the crap out of them. They tell them if they come back they will kill them. Then they drive them back into central america on crappy buses and trucks and dump them. They send them north in caravans and on giant trains.
sorry, there was a typo. It's fixed now.
Rolling Stone prints another queen for a day story and the didn’t even get the washer and dryer.
So go complaint to Marriott hotels about cruelty, in that they refuse to house them
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