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Faith leaders seek access to ICE detention centers during Lent and Ramadan

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The long-held practice of faith leaders ministering to detained migrants has become far more contentious — and consequential — as detention numbers soar across the United States during the federal government’s immigration crackdown. Clergy are pushing for more access at detention centers, especially during the ongoing holy seasons of Lent and Ramadan. After celebrating an … Read more

‘Worse than a prison’: 911 calls, interviews reveal problems at ICE’s largest detention camp

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EL PASO, Texas — Serious medical and mental health emergencies have been routine at the nation’s largest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility since its opening, according to records obtained by The Associated Press. Data and recordings from more than a hundred 911 calls at Camp East Montana in El Paso, Texas, along with … Read more

Attempted suicides, fights, pain: 911 calls reveal misery at ICE’s largest detention facility

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EL PASO, Texas — The calls to 911 poured in from staff at Camp East Montana in Texas, the nation’s largest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility, at a rate of nearly one a day for five months, each its own tale of pain and despair. A man sobs after being assaulted by another … Read more

ICE confirms a measles outbreak in the nation’s largest detention facility in Texas

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At least 14 cases of measles have been confirmed at the nation’s largest ICE detention facility, an agency spokesperson told NBC News in a statement. People who tested positive for the highly contagious disease at Camp East Montana in El Paso, Texas, have been “cohorted and separated from the rest of the detained population to … Read more

Large immigration detention camp in Texas is closed to visitors amid measles outbreak

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EL PASO, Texas — A large immigration detention camp in Texas has been closed to visitors and attorneys due to a measles outbreak, a lawmaker said Tuesday. There are 14 active measles cases at the detention center on the Fort Bliss Army base and 112 people are being isolated, said U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar, an … Read more

Worms in food, poor care, lights on 24/7: Families tell of life in detention center

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LAREDO, Texas — A month after ICE agents sent the young Ecuadorian mother and her 7-year-old daughter to a sprawling detention center 1,300 miles from their Minnesota home, they were finally free. But when the bus pulled up to a migrant shelter in the border city of Laredo, dropping off a half-dozen families lugging bags … Read more

Trump administration labels Iran state sponsor of wrongful detention

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The Trump administration on Friday formally designated Iran as a state sponsor of wrongful detention, escalating pressure on Tehran at a moment of mounting military tensions and sputtering diplomacy.  The designation, announced by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, activates authorities created under an executive order signed in September that expanded the government’s ability to penalize … Read more

Listen: 911 calls from the ICE family detention center in Dilley, Texas

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911 calls capture kids burning with fever, struggling to breathe at ICE detention center

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Kheilin Valero Marcano’s account paints a different picture. By mid-January, Valero Marcano knew something was seriously wrong with her daughter, Amalia. In the month since federal officers arrested the family of asylum-seekers during an immigration check-in in El Paso, Texas, and transferred them to Dilley, the 17-month-old’s health had steadily declined. For weeks, according to … Read more