Japanese Internment Survivors Gather to Demand Closure of Texas ICE Jail

Roughly two dozen immigration advocates, faith leaders, Japanese internment camp survivors and their descendants completed a four-day, 45-mile pilgrimage Saturday to an immigrant detention facility outside of Dilley. The activists demanded the closure of the only federal family detention center, described by a Japanese internment survivor as inhumane and a tragic “repetition of American…
Source

Original

Judge Orders Release of Mother and 5 Children Held in ICE Jail for Nearly a Year

A lawyer for a family that has spent close to a year at an immigration detention center in Texas at the insistence of the Trump administration demanded the family’s release late Monday after a federal magistrate judge found that “requiring them to endure further detention… risks compounding the constitutional violation.” “A federal court has determined [US Immigration and Customs Enforcement]’…
Source

Original