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"We have made every effort. We are exhausted. We visited every detention facility. We went to prisons and police stations at different levels - local, district and regional," he says.

Built over eight days at the end of June in the Everglades, a protected wetlands famous for its alligators, the South Florida Detention Facility quickly became one of the most notorious immigration detention centres in the US.

As of this week, Marco appears to have been moved to the Krome detention facility 35 miles way.

When Gladys's husband Marco Alvarez Bravo, 38, was arrested and taken to the detention facility, it was her worst nightmare.

She has also filed criminal charges against two Democratic lawmakers in the state over scuffles with immigration officers at a Newark detention facility.