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EL PASO, TX - JUNE 05: Migrants expect to be processed and loaded into a van by U.S. Border Patrol agents after being arrested when they illegally crossed to the United States from Mexico on June 5, 2019, in El Paso, Texas. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

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Massive detentions

Figures published by the government on Tuesday show the highest detention rate since 2007.

October 8th, 2019

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A father carries his sleeping son, 3, after their family illegally crossed the U.S.-Mexico border on December 7, 2015 near Rio Grande City, Texas. John Moore / Getty Images

Nothing will deter them

August 8th, 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

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A new policy of the Department of Homeland Security warns that "illegal" immigrants detained at the border will be separated from their children. Photo: EFE/Joebeth Terriquez

Separating families

May 7th, 2018

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Secretary of Homeland Security, Kirstjen Nielsen, responds to questions from the media during the daily White House briefing on Wednesday, April 4, 2018, in Washington, DC (USA). Nielsen responded mainly to questions about Syria and the security of the southern border. EFE / Shawn Thew

"Troops: To the border!"

April 4th, 2018

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Immigration and Customs Agents make a massive and nationwide raid during the early hours of Wednesday, January 10, 2017. Photo: AP.

National Dragnet

January 10th, 2018

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Rosa María Hernández, 10, who has cerebral palsy and underwent emergency gallbladder surgery last Tuesday, has been in an immigration detention center for six days without seeing her parents. (Photo: @ EdgarANavarrete / Twitter)

November 1st, 2017

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Mass deportation could be a real scenario. Source: http://www.jornal.us/

A detainee costs $ 65 a day

July 24th, 2017

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LatinoJustice PRLDEF, long known by its former name the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund, is a New York-based national civil rights organization with the goal of changing discriminatory practices via advocacy and litigation. Privately funded, nonprofit and nonpartisan, it is part of the umbrella Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights.

The first legal battle…

July 20th, 2017