• Families with young children are forced to sleep on the dirty ground surrounded by mountains of garbage
  • Many have resorted to fashioning makeshift tents using discarded clothing and tree branches 
  • The punishing heat has soared to the high 90s and families are bathing in the grimy water of the Rio Grande 
  • The cramped conditions have also fueled fears of a COVID-19 outbreak – especially given that the migrants crossing the border are not required to be vaccinated
  • The squalor is more reminiscent of a Third World country than the land of the American dream
  • Almost 15,000 migrants were camped out under the bridge; around 8,000 are still awaiting processing there

Horrific photos have emerged of the squalid and fetid migrant camp in Del Rio, Texas that is currently home to thousands of Haitian migrants who’ve flocked to the US in the latest border crisis to hit Joe Biden.

Desperate migrants, many of them families with young children, are being forced to sleep on the dirty ground or – if they’re fortunate – cardboard boxes folded out flat.

Many of the 8,600 who remain there have resorted to fashioning makeshift tents using discarded clothing and tree branches in order to provide at least some shelter from the elements. Some have attempted to

Women and young children are seen lying on the ground of the camp among plastic bottles, empty Oreo packets and food containers

A young girl stands in the place that she currently calls home in a makeshift camp under the Del Rio bridge in Texas

A Haitian passport is seen in a pile of trash near the International Bridge between Mexico and the US Tuesday night

An aerial photo shows the huge piles of garbage which lie just steps away from the places young children sleep