Mexico watchdog says migrants overcrowded, no masks or medicine


  • World
  • Wednesday, 07 Jul 2021

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's human rights commission (CNDH) has accused migration authorities of keeping nearly 90 people in overcrowded facilities, without providing masks to protect them against COVID-19 or medicines for epilepsy and diabetes.

The CNDH said 88 migrants are being kept under leaky roofs at a detention center designed to house only 30 people, run by the National Migration Institute (INM) in the northern city of Saltillo in Coahuila state. It also said worms had been spotted in the food.

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