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Children Behind Bars: Family Detention on the U.S.-Mexico Border (Audio)

June 29, 2017

Nara Milanich

Nara Milanich discusses family detention centers, asylum processes, and the fight to protect immigrant rights.

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June 28, 2017

Nara Milanich

Lawyers and other volunteers have provided assistance to women and child refugees in family detention centers since 2014. Under Trump, uncertainty reigns.

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detention centers

Children Behind Bars: Family Detention on the U.S.-Mexico Border (Audio)

Dispatches from “Baby Jail” in South Texas