Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
Throngs of Central American women and children are forced to stay in squalid, cramped conditions at a Border Patrol station in McAllen, Texas, the Washington Post reports.
Video obtained by the Washington Post shows children sleeping on concrete floors in sweltering heat for days. The migrants are fed tacos and bologna sandwiches and the sick are separated by strips of yellow police tape. They use portable toilets and have no showers.
After seeing the conditions, President Obama declared a “humanitarian crisis.”
Each day, agents capture hundreds of Central American migrants, some of whom travel in groups as large as 250 people.
Many of them are fleeing violence and poverty.
