No Safe Haven Here

Detention Conditions

Food quality

Refugees report being fed only rice and beans, never meat (pork or chicken). Respondents reported getting chicken only during congressional visits. Refugees reported finding centipedes in their rice and beans. The food in the detention centers…

Project Description and Methods

Site Visit, July 22–24, 2015

The team traveled to Dilley, Texas, on July 22, 2015, to conduct interviews in the Dilley detention center.

Quantitative Analysis

Frequencies

Surveys were based on a Likert scale of “nunca,” “un poco,” “bastante,” or “mucho” with points between one and four respectively. Scores were added for each section, then divided by the number of items to obtain a total score for each outcome.

Conclusion and Recommendations

The investigators acknowledge that the 21st century is witnessing the largest refugee crisis in history, with four million refugees from Syria alone (Tufekci 2015 U.N. High Commission for Refugees 2015). The problem eclipses any individual government’s resources. For this…