{"id":600858,"date":"2018-07-08T07:00:37","date_gmt":"2018-07-08T13:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=600858"},"modified":"2018-07-06T15:00:08","modified_gmt":"2018-07-06T21:00:08","slug":"a-room-so-cold-that-we-got-headaches-mother-details-conditions-inside-migrant-detention-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2018\/07\/a-room-so-cold-that-we-got-headaches-mother-details-conditions-inside-migrant-detention-center\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;A room so cold that we got headaches:&#8217; Mother details conditions inside migrant detention center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/c8keW3DDpbI\" width=\"771\" height=\"430\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Cells so cold she got headaches. Nights spent sleeping on mats with foil blankets. The sound of mothers weeping after being separated from their children.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">That&#8217;s how Yulissa Pacheco, 24, described the four nights she and her son spent inside a border detention center in McAllen, Texas.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"module align-left half type-aside\">\n<h3>About this article<\/h3>\n<p>This article originally appeared in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2018\/07\/06\/honduran-migrant-details-conditions-inside-mcallen-border-detention\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Texas Tribune<\/a>,\u00a0a nonpartisan, nonprofit media organization that informs Texans and engages with them about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues.<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">She said she knew the chance she was taking when she fled Honduras for the United States.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI was watching the news on TV before I left my house and I heard they were separating the children,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">But she said she still ventured north with her 4-year-old in hopes of being reunited with her older son and the boys\u2019 father in North Carolina. Officials kept the pair together, but her aunt was separated from her 15-year-old son.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Authorities released Pacheco and her son on June 30 with an ankle monitor strapped to her leg to ensure she shows up to court on July 11.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Watch the video above as she details her experience inside a detention center.<script src=\"https:\/\/cdn.texastribune.org\/pixel\/dot.min.29c708b3d0da5d17a725.js\" integrity=\"sha384-8Xwf\/TlQnmHiajg1t3dn8w4qlF1rmV33o5NAQVXYu0T2q3rHV5579zrSmRjh+XnM\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\" data-tt-canonical=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2018\/07\/06\/honduran-migrant-details-conditions-inside-mcallen-border-detention\/\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After fleeing Honduras with her young son, Yulissa Pacheco, 24, spent her first days in the United States inside a border detention facility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":594021,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[140,234],"class_list":["post-600858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-border-and-immigration","tag-children"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=600858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/594021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}