The United States announced that it would build camps for 7,500 immigrants at the border

The Defense Ministry announced Wednesday the construction of six temporary camps in the border areas with Mexico, the states of Texas and Arizona. accommodate a total of 7,500 undocumented immigrants.

The Pentagon will build the camps in support and at the request of the Department of National Security (DHS), responsible for border security and immigration in the country.

It is precisely DHS that will be in charge of camp management, according to the Pentagon in a statement: "The military personnel will not exploit the facilities, it will only build the stores." Facilities management is the responsibility of DHS.

In addition to building them, the Pentagon will also donate tents for the camps, which will house 7,500 undocumented adults already treated by the Border Patrol and handed over to immigration authorities.

"This support is intended to help DHS cope with the current humanitarian and security crisis on the southern border," said the Pentagon.

The camps will be located in Tornillo, Donna, Laredo and Del Rio (Texas), as well as in Tucson and Yuma (Arizona), at locations chosen by DHS.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has already denounced early May the creation of detention centers with tents to accommodate undocumented immigrants crossing the southern border with Mexico.

HRW reported that its satellite images taken on April 25 showed the "fast" creation of these camps in positions managed by the Border Patrol in El Paso and Donna (both in Texas).

The southern border of the United States is experiencing an unprecedented wave of immigration over the past decade, which has led border authorities to recognize that they were overflowing.

In April, the number of migrants arrested after crossing the border exceeded 100,000, mainly families from Central America, mainly Guatemalans, who were seeking asylum in the United States. on arrival