Trump says immigrants ‘unhappy’ with detention centres should stay home

By Makini Brice WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump, facing renewed criticism from Democrats and activists over his handling of a migrant crisis on the U.S.- Mexico border, said in a Twitter post on Wednesday that immigrants unhappy with conditions at detention centres should be told "not to come." Democratic lawmakers and civil rights activists who have visited migrant detention centres along the border in recent days have described nightmarish conditions marked by overcrowding and inadequate access to food, water and other basic needs. The Department of Homeland Security's inspector general on Tuesday published graphic photos of migrant-holding centres in Texas' Rio Grande Valley crammed with twice as many people as they were meant to hold

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