Illinois, Chicago Suburb, former National Guard training base, now the first temporary detention facility of Mexico, Illinois.
Here are detained "high-risk individuals" identified after border conflicts, those suspected of being associated with the "Phoenix Society," and some local gang leaders who took advantage of the chaos. In total, about one hundred and ten people.
Conditions are crude, and the atmosphere is oppressive.
Late at night, the spotlight beam of the sentry post swept across the barbed wire fence, casting moving spots of light on the weeds and concrete ground.
The Mexican soldier on the watchtower, holding a rifle, felt his eyelids drooping. Weeks of high-pressure vigilance had left everyone exhausted.
Two in the morning, the time when people are most drowsy.
Outside the detention facility, in the shadow of an abandoned farm equipment warehouse about three hundred meters from the barbed wire, a dozen black shadows silently crawled into position.
