Of 2,000 asylum seekers in this camp, only 40-50 get full meals each day.
They share 2 wooden shower stalls, 10 toilets, and have no cleaning supplies.
They’re living outside, exposed to the elements, without running water and limited food.
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They share 2 wooden shower stalls, 10 toilets, and have no cleaning supplies.
They’re living outside, exposed to the elements, without running water and limited food.
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Iris and her baby have been living at this camp since July.
She was turned away from the US by CBP, assured that she and her child would be able to live in a shelter.
Instead, she’s begging on the street, waiting for her asylum interview in December.
She was turned away from the US by CBP, assured that she and her child would be able to live in a shelter.
Instead, she’s begging on the street, waiting for her asylum interview in December.
A Mexican immigration official stated, “The US is the one who is lying to them. I tell them the shelter doesn’t exist. The US should be the one giving them aid — that’s who they are asking for asylum.”
Asylum seekers waiting remember their suffering in the US.
They remember being torn away from their children, forced to live in cells where vomit and human waste had been left on the floor for days.
They remember caring for their sick children with no way to help them.
They remember being torn away from their children, forced to live in cells where vomit and human waste had been left on the floor for days.
They remember caring for their sick children with no way to help them.
One asylum seeker said, “Someone asked me recently why we wanted to go to the United States after everything we have been through, and I said, ‘Because I know not all Americans are the same, they are American and they are not like this.’”
