Dr. Christine Eady MannVerified account

To recap: I’ve been volunteering this week at the LaFrontera Immigrant Shelter and Clinic in Laredo. For a few months, CBP has brought up to 200 immigrants a day for respite before leaving to stay with their sponsors. Then in the last week: almost no migrants were dropped off.pic.twitter.com/yYtReybQKU

Fast forward to yesterday. By chance, I found a reporter in Mexico who had been documenting what was happening on the Mexico side of the border. He agreed to meet me there. In the meantime, a contact from the shelter connected me to a woman who was helping to feed the migrants.pic.twitter.com/kZY9WZ4HVe

She agreed to pick me up, drive me across the border, and show me around the area including what she has been seeing and doing. We grabbed some supplies and loaded up in her van with her three children and headed to Mexico. Nuevo Laredo.pic.twitter.com/ewuxkri7fH

She first showed me all the “shelters” on the Mexico side where migrants were supposed to be. Empty. She explained that there was no system to get migrants there and no oversight to see that they were receiving food, water, etc. No one knew where the migrants were.pic.twitter.com/mvaCbUcLil

She took us by one that had been run by a local parish. Empty. Closed down. The priest had been missing for 3 days, presumed kidnapped. No one knew where these migrants were either.pic.twitter.com/nvQ5CLXGy3

After a few more stops, we went to the Mexican Immigration building: Customs on their side of the border. This is where CBP has been bringing migrants instead of letting them stay in the US in shelters like the one I’ve been volunteering at.pic.twitter.com/aNY3dXrTwZ

This is where the photos I shared previously were taken. This is where children had been sleeping on pizza boxes. It was empty when we got there, but both she and the reporter told us that at times, there were up to 200 people-including children-sheltering under this structure.pic.twitter.com/cXvhqtdTqf