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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ignited a firestorm after she spent 3 days calling US migrant detention centers 'concentration camps'
Critics argue it's wrong to compare the US government's immigrant detention to Nazi Germany's genoc…
Eliza Relman  Â
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez calls Trump's migrant detention centers 'concentration camps' and his administration 'fascist,' igniting a fierce debate online
"Concentration camps are not the same as death camps. This is an important distinction. One of the …
Eliza Relman  Â
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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  Â
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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…
Charles R. Davis  Â
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Trump says 'we're doing a fantastic job' at migrant detention centers, where scathing reports have emerged that children lack basic amenities
Trump's comments follow scathing reports of children kept in US Customs and Border Protection facil…
Nicole Einbinder,Nicole Einbi…  Â
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Border Patrol officials reportedly forced a Honduran migrant to walk around a detention center holding a sign reading 'I like men' in Spanish
CBP has been under increased scrutiny in recent days after a bombshell investigative report in ProP…
Grace Panetta  Â
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A whistleblower complaint alleging hysterectomies being performed on women from an ICE detention center recalls the ugly history of forced sterilization in the US
Eugenics, the belief that certain people should not reproduce because they have undesirable traits,…
Sarah Al-Arshani  Â
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Sobering photos show a Texas detention center where migrant children are held, and a mural of Trump is painted on a wall
Casa Padre, which reportedly used to be a Walmart, is operated by the firm, Southwest Key, whi…
David Choi  Â
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Only a quarter of Americans agree with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez that migrant detentions are comparable to 'concentration camps'
SurveyMonkey Audience polls from a national sample balanced by census data of age and gender. Respo…
Grace Panetta,Walt Hickey  Â
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Protesters take down US flag and replace it with a Mexican flag at ICE detention center
Other protests are being organized against the sweeping raids on undocumented migrants in 10 major …
David Choi  Â
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Laura Ingraham compared migrant child detention centers to 'summer camps' as the Trump administration faces escalating blowback over family separation policy
Fox News opinion host Laura Ingraham sought to minimize the controversy surrounding the Trump adm…
David Choi  Â
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Hundreds of scholars called on Holocaust museum in DC to stop rejecting 'concentration camp' comparisons with US's detention of migrants
But they criticized the museum's "fundamentally ahistorical approach" and expressed concern that th…
Joseph Zeballos-Roig  Â
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The US wants to turn back migrants at the US-Mexico border over fears of spreading coronavirus through detention facilities and Border Patrol agents
"When do those start finding their way into the immigration flow?" he said, according to CNN. "When…
Michelle Mark  Â
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Trump defended the conditions in a squalid detention center visited by Mike Pence, saying it was 'clean but crowded'
In a facility temporarily holding children and their parents in Donna, Texas there was air conditio…
Tom Porter,Tom Porter  Â
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Officials found an unaccompanied 4-year-old boy walking toward the US border, as Biden faces a surge in migrant children trying to enter
Mexico's National Migration Institute said the boy, from Honduras, was found alone and walking towa…
Sinéad Baker  Â
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Human-rights groups are urging the Biden administration to get children out of the makeshift Border Patrol facilities
Journalists haven't been allowed into holding facilities in Texas, but government-shared videos sho…
Yelena Dzhanova  Â
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4 solutions experts say Biden can try right now to deal with thousands of migrant kids coming to the US-Mexico border
The number of unaccompanied migrant children detained at the US Southern border has more than tripl…
Erin Snodgrass  Â
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Beto O'Rourke and Bernie Sanders visited a migrant child detention facility, prompting emotional, powerful scenes
Sanders and O'Rourke had headed to Homestead by way of Miami, as they both participated in the firs…
John Haltiwanger  Â
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Rep. Steve King said he drank water out of a toilet at a migrant detention facility and it was 'pretty good'
"Now I've seen the inside of these facilities. It's not just the kids. It's everyone," Ocasio-Corte…
John Haltiwanger  Â
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Trump says if asylum seekers don't like conditions in detention centers, 'they shouldn't come'
Earlier this week, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez accused US Customs and Border Protection of "syste…