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The protest is calling for a change to inhumane conditions in facilities.

Activists will be protesting the migrant facilities housing asylum seekers in San Ysidro today. The group that is protesting says the conditions inside the facilities are inhumane. They also say the migrants are being denied basic humanitarian treatment.

“They’re just looking for a place of security from their home country that’s been colonized, politicized, militarized, and they’re escaping to survive like any of us would,” said a protester, Yusef Miller. “There are legal asylum processes but they’re not being afforded that.”

Instead, Miller says the migrants have been crammed together in unsanitary conditions in detention centers across the southern border. Miller says today several local organizations and religious groups will come together for a peaceful protest. They’re calling this protest an international movement, aimed at shedding light on the abuse these asylum seekers have allegedly faced in these detention facilities.

Several democratic leaders have spoken out recently against the harsh conditions they say they’ve witnessed themselves at the centers. But the Trump administration is trying to change the way Americans view the facilities.

Just recently, the Associated Press cameras were allowed inside the newest youth center in Texas. Pictures show migrant children with hands on their hearts reciting the Pledge of Allegiance, sleeping in bunk beds, weaving, eating catered food, and playing soccer on grass fields.

Still, Miller says he and several groups want to send a message that these migrants should not be detained in these centers as they try to seek asylum.

The march and rally will begin at Larsen Field in San Ysidro at 5 PM.