How Texas is using immigration detention centers
In the last year, America has quietly started building detention centers in Texas to deal with immigrants awaiting deportation trials.
In the past, families who arrived in the United States would live in communities while they awaited trial to keep their children out of prison-like conditions and allow them to attend school.
With this switch to detention centers for housing these immigrants, what is happening to young children, and how are American officials justifying this detention policy that's illegal under international law?
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