'They threw us in there like little animals': Overcrowding, abuse seen at Mexico migrant detention center.
The 36-year-old Cuban mechanic's eyes glazed over as he recalled his time at the Siglo XXI holding facility: 50 people sleeping in 9-by-12-foot pens, feces overflowing the latrines, food and water always scarce.
"If more people are detained, there is not the corresponding infrastructure to handle it," Edgar Corzo of the governmental National Human Rights Commission said Thursday during a tour of southern Mexico ahead of an anticipated, 6,000-strong National Guard deployment to help police immigration. It's a prisonlike compound with 16- to 30-foot walls, control towers, security cameras and high-ceiling caged areas where guards patrol above the migrants. There is a punishment cell called"the well" which the government has promised not to use, though the Fray Matias de Cordova Human Rights Center, one of the few NGOs allowed inside, has not been able to verify that.
"They said to me, 'Let's go!' 'Why are we here?'" said Graciela, who was now free and waiting for her refugee claim to be processed."Sometimes we all cried.""I panicked," his mother said of her fear during a detainee riot."I cried, I begged them to tell me if he was OK, but nothing. I went five days without seeing him."
The federal government has also acknowledged that the National Migration Institute is one of Mexico's most corrupt institutions. More than 600 employees have been purged and new agents have sent to Siglo XXI, though details are unknown. They were transferred in a group of about 30 that night to a highway immigration checkpoint where they spent the next 45 days in similar conditions, not allowed outside, rarely able to bathe and getting almost no sleep because the lights and a loud television were always on.They were also cut off from the outside world. Rodríguez said relatives back in Cuba went so long without news, they thought he was dead:"They even held a wake for me.
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