{"id":10497,"date":"2023-04-21T17:02:25","date_gmt":"2023-04-21T17:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=10497"},"modified":"2023-04-21T17:02:25","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T17:02:25","slug":"migrants-were-left-for-dead-in-a-mexican-detention-center-was-it-a-preventable-tragedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=10497","title":{"rendered":"Migrants were left for dead in a Mexican detention center. Was it a preventable tragedy?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;US policy isn\u2019t solely to blame for the adverse conditions in Mexico that may have contributed to the tragedy at the migrant detention center. As a result of Trump-era policies that have largely continued under the Biden administration, there are now more migrants than ever waiting in Mexican border cities to enter the US as a result of policies pursued by the Trump and Biden administrations. As of late December, there were a record&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/elpasomatters.org\/2023\/01\/07\/us-immigration-program-strains-juarez-migrant-shelters\/#:~:text=In%20late%20December%2C%20Ju%C3%A1rez%20Mayor,migrants%20stranded%20in%20the%20city.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">estimated 20,000 migrants<\/a>&nbsp;waiting in Ju\u00e1rez alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But Michelle Mittelstadt, a spokesperson for the Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank, said the Mexican government can invest more in expanding its capacity to accommodate migrant populations that include families and unaccompanied children.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/politics\/2023\/3\/29\/23661869\/fire-migrant-detention-mexico\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/politics\/2023\/3\/29\/23661869\/fire-migrant-detention-mexico<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;US policy isn\u2019t solely to blame for the adverse conditions in Mexico that may have contributed to the tragedy at the migrant detention center. As a result of Trump-era policies that have largely continued under the Biden administration, there are now more migrants than ever waiting in Mexican border cities to enter the US as a result of policies pursued by the Trump and Biden administrations. As of late December, there were a record estimated 20,000 migrants waiting in Ju\u00e1rez alone.<\/p>\n<p>But Michelle Mittelstadt, a spokesperson for the Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank, said the Mexican government can invest more in expanding its capacity to accommodate migrant populations that include families and unaccompanied children.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[449,53,493,25,945],"class_list":["post-10497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-border","tag-deaths","tag-immigrants","tag-immigration","tag-mexico"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10498,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10497\/revisions\/10498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}