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Migrant kids often held in South Texas detention center five times longer than a court order allows

The nation’s only detention center for families is routinely holding children beyond the 20-day limit, including an Iranian-born “average American kid” who’s been locked up for 123 days and counting.

Earlier this year, a 16-year-old student at a Los Angeles high school was looking forward to starting his junior year, where he planned to try out for the school’s varsity tennis team. His parents were both college psychology professors. But in April, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers arrested the family, who immigrated from Iran […]

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