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To view this webpage as a PDF, please click here. Migrants are in the United States but are forced to wait for Border Patrol to pick them up for processing in an area where there are no services. In the remote desert town of Jacumba, CA, migrants have no place to go, and Border Patrol has them waiting under extreme weather conditions, without any resources.
These standards include instructions on feeding and providing water to migrants, providing adequate restroom facilities, attending to medical concerns, and requiring shelter from environmental elements. From March to May of this year, the Border Patrol held migrants under similar conditions for days, under a hot sun during the day and cold temperatures at night.
Community-based organizations responded by setting up solidarity support stations along the secondary ft border barrier in San Diego. The stations provided migrants with food, water and clothing while addressing basic medical needs and charging mobile phones.
In Jacumba, migrants are not restrained between border walls. Instead, they wait in desert terrain for Border Patrol to pick them up for processing; here, advocates delivered the same humanitarian aid under even more extreme weather conditions.
