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‘I’m not giving up so easily’: After 4 months in detention, an asylum fight begins

  • Max Nesterak

Andrea Pedro-Francisco feels like part of her is still trapped in a nightmare — back in the crowded, windowless cell block of the Texas detention center she left weeks ago. “My mind is halfway here, thinking ‘Yes, I’m back,’ but the other half feels like I’m still there,” said Pedro-Francisco, a migrant from Guatemala who […]

Watchdog report flags systemic waste and abuse at Texas migrant camp
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Watchdog report flags systemic waste and abuse at Texas migrant camp

  • Louisiana Illuminator

WASHINGTON — A newly released report by a nonpartisan government watchdog reveals severe financial waste and substandard conditions at the nation's largest immigrant detention center. The Government Accountability Office investigation into Camp East Montana, located at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas, is one of the first independent looks into facilities funded by a $170 billion immigration enforcement law passed in July.