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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
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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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Photo shows unaccompanied migrant children crammed in a single playpen at an overcrowded border facility
A Department of Homeland Security facility that can hold 250 is housing more than 4,000 migrants, i…
Sinéad Baker
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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
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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
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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
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Biden opens up migrant child facility, prompting criticism from progressives like AOC
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said the reopening of the facility "is not okay, never has been okay,…