Its hard to know what to believe with respect to the conditions at the detention centers:
https://lidblog.com/aoc-detention-center/
The Democrat response to illegal immigration has changed significantly over the past few years:
https://gop.com/flashback-democrats-...mmigration-rsr
PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON: “All Americans, not only in the States most heavily affected but in every place in this country, are rightly disturbed by the large numbers of illegal aliens entering our country.
The jobs they hold might otherwise be held by citizens or legal immigrants. The public service they use impose burdens on our taxpayers.
That's why our administration has moved aggressively to secure our borders more by hiring a record number of new border guards, by deporting twice as many criminal aliens as ever before, by cracking down on illegal hiring, by barring welfare benefits to illegal aliens.
In the budget I will present to you, we will try to do more to speed the deportation of illegal aliens who are arrested for crimes, to better identify illegal aliens in the workplace...
We are a nation of immigrants. But we are also a nation of laws. It is wrong and ultimately self-defeating for a nation of immigrants to permit the kind of abuse of our immigration laws we have seen in recent years, and we must do more to stop it.” (Bill Clinton, Remarks At State Of The Union, Washington, D.C., 1/24/95)
I think that the illegal immigrants are pawns of both the right and left. Both Democrats and Republicans think they will vote primarily for Democrats so the Democrats want to increase their numbers and the Republicans want to decrease their numbers.