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Leaked video shows Texas child migrant camp, where staff allege kids are sexually abused and COVID-19 is rampant
Staff at a child migrant camp at the Fort Bliss military base in El Paso, Texas, spoke to the BBC a…
Sinéad Baker
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Biden officials have reunited only 52 of at least 1,000 separated migrant families, a task they say is almost impossible because of Trump
Trump-era officials left no paper trail while separating children from their mothers and fathers. S…
Tom Porter
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A leaked video exemplifies what Black migrants endure in US detention centers
Detainees and immigration lawyers say there is a disturbing and overlooked problem of anti-Black ra…
John Washington ,José Olivares
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The Biden administration moved more than $2 billion earmarked for COVID measures to deal with the influx of migrants at the border
Officials have struggled to respond to the surge of migrants, and this financial reshuffling is par…
Yelena Dzhanova
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Photos capture the conditions of an overcrowded Texas facility where 4,000 migrants are housed
Young children look out from inside a pod at the Donna Department of Homeland Security holding faci…
Erin Snodgrass
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The Biden administration wants to know if Saudi Arabia used American weapons to kill 'hundreds' of migrants
Human Rights Watch has accused Saudi Arabia of killing "hundreds" of migrants and asylum seekers ne…
Charles R. Davis
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Leaked video shows guards at a private detention center dog-piling a Black migrant: 'I was struggling to breathe'
A recording of the incident in Louisiana was leaked after someone slipped security camera footage o…
Natalie Musumeci
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Depression and mass detention: Asylum-seeking children complain of inhumane conditions while being held at Fort Bliss
The emergency intake shelter in El Paso, Texas, has been criticized for holding too many children i…
Charles Davis
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The Biden administration is looking for contractors and guards for a migrant detention facility in Guantanamo Bay - stirring outrage in lawmakers and advocates
"Sending Haitian migrants to Guantanamo Bay was a mistake in the 1990s and would be a mistake now,"…
Azmi Haroun
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How Mylar blankets went from cutting-edge space technology to a polarizing symbol of the US-Mexico border crisis
Silver space blankets have been used in marathons and rescue operations. But recently, the sheets h…
Hannah Jiang,Robin Lindsay
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Immigration detention facility staff fired pepper spray and chemical agents at migrants, disturbing photo shows
An image from surveillance video at the La Palma Correctional Center shows staff at the facility li…
Kelly McLaughlin
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At least 8 migrants were killed and hundreds more are injured after a massive blaze burned down a migrant detention facility in Yemen
Over 170 people are being treated for injuries sustained in the blaze, and the death toll could be …
Azmi Haroun
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Hundreds of detained migrants — most of whom are likely children — have reportedly been held in hotels outside the formal US detention system before immediate expulsion
Documents reviewed by The New York Times revealed at least 860 migrants were detained by Immigratio…
Lauren Frias
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Inside an ICE facility in Louisiana, detainees say ICE is depriving them of masks, under-testing for COVID-19, and moving migrants around the country
About 48% of detainees tested for in ICE facilities are positive for COVID-19. Detainees told Busin…
Joe Penney
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The Trump administration just opened the door to the indefinite detention of migrant children
The rule change is all but certain to encounter legal challenges. It would empower the government t…
Joseph Zeballos-Roig
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who compared mask rules to the Holocaust, once said AOC 'should be shamed' for comparing migrant detention centers to concentration camps
"She should never, ever, make that comparison," Greene previously said of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Co…
Oma Seddiq
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Disturbing photos show 'dangerous overcrowding' at migrant detention facilities in Texas
According to the report, senior facility managers raised "security concerns" for detainees and the …
Joseph Zeballos-Roig
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A migrant rescue boat funded by renowned street artist Banksy was seized by Italian authorities in the middle of a life-saving mission
Italy's coast guard said it detained the boat after it disobeyed orders to dock in Sicily and inste…
Kenneth Niemeyer
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UN immigration official says migrants captured by the Libyan Coast Guard are disappearing in the thousands within 'unofficial' facilities run by traffickers and militias
Representatives from international aid organizations that visit Libyan migrant detention centers sa…
Morgan Keith
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Local jail warden, twin brother, arrested and accused of shooting migrants in Texas, killing one
The brothers are accused of opening fire on a group of migrants who were drinking water alongside a…