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Shut Down Berks For Good

The former migrant family detention center is reportedly being considered by ICE to become a women…

March 8th, 2021

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Ed Gonzalez is sworn in before his testimony at a Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing on his nomination to be Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, in Washington, DC, on July 15, 2021. (Photo by Nicholas Kamm / AFP) (Photo by NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty Images)

Ed’s mixed signals

July 16th, 2021

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PA Family Detainees Released

March 1st, 2021

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Protesters outside of Etowah County Jail in Alabama. Photo: Fernando Lopez

Shut Them All Down

February 26th, 2021

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Amy Bautista (3) holds up a protest sign at the #CloseTheCamps United We Dream, American Friends Service Committee, and Families Belong Together led protests across the country at members of Congress's offices to demand the closure of inhumane immigrant detention centers that subject children and families to horrific conditions. (Photo by Tom Cooper/Getty Images for MoveOn.org Civic Action)

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Trump’s Never-ending Horror

January 24th, 2020

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MCALLEN, TEXAS - JULY 02: A U.S. Border Patrol medic treats an immigrant for heat exhaustion after taking her into custody on July 02, 2019 in McAllen, Texas. The immigrants, mostly families from Central America, turned themselves into border agents after rafting across the Rio Grande from Mexico to seek political asylum in the United States. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

DNA tests on migrants

October 4th, 2019

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ICE Detains And Deports Undocumented Immigrants From Arizona (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

The perfect deal

September 27th, 2019

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Migrants who are applying for asylum in the United States go through a processing area at a new tent courtroom at the Migration Protection Protocols Immigration Hearing Facility, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2019, in Laredo, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Makeshift Justice

September 19th, 2019

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MCALLEN, TX - JUNE 10: In this handout photo provided by the Office of Inspector General, adult males are detained in a cell with standing room only, as observed by OIG at U.S. Border Patrol McAllen Station on June 10, 2019, in McAllen, Texas. (Photo by Office of Inspector General/Department of Homeland Security via Getty Images)

Torture in custody

August 23rd, 2019

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WASHINGTON, DC - AUGUST 21: Department of Homeland Security acting Secretary Kevin McAleenan holds a news conference to announce new rules about how migrant children and families are treated in federal custody at the Ronald Reagan Building August 21, 2019, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Indefinite detentions?

August 21st, 2019

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Cantor Naomi Hirsch blows the shofar, a Jewish instrument, as a call to action at the July 4th protest in Philadelphia.

Jews Say Never Again

July 31st, 2019

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CHICAGO, ILLINOIS - JULY 13: Protesters sitting in the shade during a rally in Daley Plaza on July 13, 2019 in Chicago, Illinois. Protesters attended the rally calling for an end to criminalization, detention and deportations of migrants ahead of planned ICE raids expected this weekend. (Photo by Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images)

Threats and persecution

July 15th, 2019

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(Left) An overview of immigrants on Ellis Island, New York around 1880. (Photo by Fotosearch/Getty Images). (Right) MCALLEN, TX - JUNE 11: the centralized processing center of McAllen Station of the US Border Patrol, on June 11, 2019, in McAllen, Texas. (Photo by the Office of the Inspector General/Department of Homeland Security through Getty Images)

A long-due ticking bomb

July 3rd, 2019

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CLINT, TX - JULY 01: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) addresses the media after touring the Clint, TX Border Patrol Facility housing children on July 1, 2019 in Clint, Texas. Reports of inhumane conditions have plagued the facility where migrant children are being held. (Photo by Christ Chavez/Getty Images)

July 2nd, 2019

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MCALLEN, TX - JUNE 22: Dozens of women and their children, many fleeing poverty and violence in Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador, arrive at a bus station following release from Customs and Border Protection on June 22, 2018, in McAllen, Texas. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Detention or Sentence?

May 21st, 2019

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Children line up to enter a tent at the Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children in Homestead, Florida, Feb. 19, 2019. Photo: AP

Children are still detained

February 21st, 2019

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Trauma and despair

September 11th, 2018

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Detained immigrant children line up in the cafeteria at the Karnes County Residential Center, a temporary home for immigrant women and children detained at the border. Eric Gay/AP

Detained and abused

August 3rd, 2018

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Immigrants in a detention center in the United States. Source: https://www.urduvoa.com/

DEATH IN CUSTODY

August 1st, 2018

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Detainees are seen in an immigration detention center in San Diego, California, on May 18, 2018. (Reuters / Lucy Nicholson)

Detention and Violence

July 20th, 2018

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Migrant children in a recreation area outside Casa Padre. Credit Loren Elliott/Reuters

Immigrants: a gold mine

June 22nd, 2018