21 Heartbreaking Pictures Show The Condition Of Migrants In Detention In The United States

There's barely anyone who doesn't know about what U.S. President Donald Trump thinks of immigrants. President Donald Trump has made cracking down on illegal immigration a cornerstone of his administration's policy. But it was his now-abandoned 'zero tolerance' practice of separating migrant parents from their children at the Mexican border that triggered international condemnation.

Recent Congresswoman, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez took to twitter and wrote about the ordeals the migrants entering the U.S. are going through. She wrote that migrants are being held at border patrol station in Texas and their condition is so “horrifying” that apart from the psychological abuse, they are subjected to, they are forced to drink out of toilets.

Here are some heartbreaking images of migrants in horrifying condition at United States border

1. Migrant and his young daughter drowned on the U.S.-Mexico border.

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2. A girl sits on a bus as she leaves the premises of the National Migration Institute (INM) after being deported from the United States.

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3. Body of 2-1/2-year-old Guatemalan migrant Wilmer Josue Ramirez, who was detained last month at the U.S.-Mexico border but released from U.S. custody with his mother during treatment for an illness, during his funeral at a cemetery in the village of Olopa, Guatemala.

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4. Mother of Juan de Leon Gutierrez, a 16-year-old Guatemalan migrant detained by U.S. border patrol agents, who died in a Texas hospital while in the custody of the U.S. government, looks at the pants of Juan inside their house, in the village of Tizamarte, in the municipality of Camotan, Guatemala

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5. An overcrowded area holding families at a Border Patrol station is seen in a still image from video in Weslaco, Texas.

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6. Men are crowded in a room at Border Patrol McAllen Station in a still image from video in McAllen, Texas.

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7. Migrants from Central America cross the Rio Bravo river to enter illegally into the United States to turn themselves in to request for asylum in El Paso, Texas, US.

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8. Migrants mother and her daughter from Guatemala are seen on the banks of the Rio Bravo river before crossing illegally into the United States to turn themselves in to request asylum in El Paso, Texas, U.S.

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9. Migrants are seen outside the U.S. Border Patrol McAllen Station in a makeshift encampment in McAllen, Texas, U.S.

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10. A migrant girl waits to board a bus with fellow asylum seekers recently released from detention at a bus depot in McAllen, Texas, U.S.

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11. Migrant families recently released from detention board a bus at a bus depot in McAllen, Texas, U.S.

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12. U.S. Border Patrol agent apprehends a migrant woman and man for illegally crossing into the U.S. border from Mexico near McAllen, Texas.

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13. Migrant crawls through a hole under a border wall to illegally cross into the United States from Tijuana, Mexico.

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14. A Central American child rests on the floor at the Catholic shelter "San Francisco Javier Church", which gives temporary shelter to asylum-seekers from Central America countries released by ICE and U.S.

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15. Members of a Central American family are reunited at the Catholic shelter "San Francisco Javier Church".

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16. Migrants lying on the ground inside an enclosure, where they are being held by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), after crossing the border between Mexico and the United States illegally and turning themselves in to request asylum, in El Paso, Texas.

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17. Cuban migrants rest in their tent at an improvised shelter while waiting for humanitarian visas to enter the United States, in Mapastepec, Chiapas state, Mexico.

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18. A woman from Central America bathes a child inside the "House of the Refugee", which gives temporary shelter to migrants released by ICE and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) due to overcrowded facilities, in El Paso, Texas, U.S.

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19. U.S. Border Patrol agents apprehend undocumented migrants after they illegally crossed the U.S.-Mexico border in Mission, Texas, U.S.

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20. Migrant children eat a meal provided by United in Christ Ministry of Los Fresnos, Texas.

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21. Migrants wait for food in a pen erected by U.S. Customs and Border Protection to process a surge of migrant families and unaccompanied minors in El Paso, Texas.

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