Conditions are so dire at the US-Mexico border that migrants are getting sick, and contracting lice and chicken pox

• Several thousand Central American migrants are living out of a filthy, overcrowded sports complex on the US-Mexico border. 
• They are facing sickness and indefinite waits amid shifting US border policies. 
• Since the migrants began cramming into the complex in Tijuana, there have been multiplecases of respiratory illnesses, lice, and chicken pox. 
• Many of the people have been living in tents made of trash bags or patches of cold floor walled off with backpacks.

TIJUANA, Mexico (Reuters) - Several thousand Central American migrants languished in a filthy, overcrowded sports complex within tantalizing sight of the United States, facing sickness and indefinite waits amid shifting U.S. border policies that barred them from crossing.

Since the bedraggled men, women and children of a caravan of mostly Hondurans began cramming into the complex in the Mexican border city of Tijuana about three weeks ago, there have been multiple cases of respiratory illnesses, lice and chicken pox, according to three city officials who declined to be named because they were not authorized to speak to the media.

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