detention center

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A light amid the worry, however, is the community that her mother has built at the detention center.

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A man held at California’s newest and largest immigration detention center could face “imminent death,” attorneys argued in an emergency motion filed late Tuesday, asking a federal judge to order ICE to immediately provide lifesaving medical care to him and another detainee.

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Leqaa Kordia, 32, was summarily renditioned from Newark to the overcrowded Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas, where she is still being held today.

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The American Civil Liberties Union has documented more than a dozen cases of what it says are pregnant women housed without proper medical care at Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Ga., and the ICE processing center in Basile, La., where Pineda was held.

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At the detention center, he said, agents have told him they’ll still find a way to deport him — if not to Cuba, then maybe Panama or Costa Rica.

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