Mother pleads for help in harrowing video from Mexico detention centre: 'My son is dying'

[ehrnst]

Warning - video contains disturbing content.

Harrowing footage shows a migrant mother begging for help for her sick child after riots broke out at a Mexico detention centre.

The mother-of-two, from Haiti, lies in the dirt on the ground as she cries for help for her “dying son” through a gap beneath a fence.

The unnamed woman, whose has a five-year-old and 14-month-old son, claims they have suffered without food or drinkable water at Feria Mesoamericana centre in Tapachula, where they have been for 10 days.

‘They haven’t given us a bit of food. There is no drinkable water. I have suffered a lot’

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/mexico-woman-help-detention-centre-video-feria-mesoamericana-a8977326.html

[Claritie Pixie]

1. Everyone needs to see this. Don't look away.

[Demovictory9]

2. kick

[marlakay]

3. I can't believe this is our country

I don’t recognize America anymore, i am in Ireland for summer and glad for once not to be here on fourth, normally one of my favorite holidays.

[groundloop]

4. I'm with you.... not feeling real patriotic right now.

[JI7]

6. if we look at our history with treatment of minorities especially

with native Americans and African Americans it's not hard to believe.

the bigots are lashing out over losing power.

[pangaia]

7. It is not the USA, although it certainly could be.. It is in southern Mexico.

[malaise]

5. Monsters monsters monsters

Close the concentration camps wherever they are

[ehrnst]

8. This is in Mexico.

And we have to have a place for the people in CPB custody to go when we close them, and some people will howl that any shelter is going to = "GOP concentration camp" as long as DT is POTUS.

[malaise]

9. I know

but children should not be dying in detention centers