Conditions slowly improve in Nogales for migrant children at border

NOGALES, Arizona – The conditions are slowly starting to improve for nearly one thousand unaccompanied migrant children sheltered at an impromptu holding center here, officials said Tuesday.

The children now have access to catered food, onsite showers, medical facilities for vaccinations and a makeshift laundromat after being shipped from overflowing detention facilities in Texas over the weekend, Nogales Mayor Arturo Garino told msnbc.

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Some advocates argue that the heightened border security has had the opposite effect, with a focus on enforcement rather than stemming the problem at the source in the countries the children are escaping.

“It's really trapping kids in a burning house,” Jennifer Podkul, senior program officer at the Women's Refugee Commission, told msnbc. “If they do have legitimate concerns, they should have access to a place that's safe.”

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