'The stench burns your nostrils and makes you want to puke,' says Antonio Jaramillo, a Mexican migrant in Tijuana after being deported from the U.S.
Heavy rainfall made the difficult living conditions for migrants staying at a shelter close to the U.S.-Mexico border even harder Monday with flooding and foul sewage backups.
Jaramillo said though he worries about the health of the kids staying in the shelter, he said the issue is pretty common throughout shelters and other lower-income residences in northern Tijuana.“I’m pretty sure this happens every time it rains with the black water,” said Jaramillo. “Even in the other shelters, they struggle with this same issue.”
People would have to use the restrooms somewhere else, though, throughout the day, he said, until the city repaired the sewer systems.“There are many children here and many women, as well, and we have no drainage,” said García. “Due to the heavy rains that have occurred since this morning in the city, the state commission of public services of Tijuana is working to meet the various reports of saturation in the domestic drainage network that is outside Movimiento Juventud 2000 shelter located in Zona Norte of Tijuana where staff of the agency went out this afternoon to carry out work to resolve the issue,” their statement read in part.
Women and children worked to sop up water in the kitchen Monday morning, as another man stationed near the door kept rainwater from coming inside. A woman from Michoacán said government officials have paid so much attention to addressing the issue of Central American migration that they’ve ignored their own countrymen.
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