Members of the National Guard stand at the gate as migrants of different nationalities wait outside the Siglo XXI migration facility to apply for documents to legalize their stay in a country, in Tapachula, Mexico June 20, 2019. REUTERS/Carlos Jasso
TAPACHULA, Mexico (Reuters) - Mexico's immigration centres are becoming increasingly squalid and overcrowded as authorities step up the detention of migrants headed for the United States, with inmates languishing for weeks amid medical neglect, according to detainees, lawyers and rights groups.
Reuters spoke to more than a dozen recent detainees at the Siglo XXI detention centre, the country's largest. They described being held in the facility in Chiapas state on Mexico's southern border for long periods without information about their cases.
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