detention center
Example Sentences
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Soon after, ICE agents arrived and took Jose Alvaro to a detention center.
From Salon
Gonzalez is still able to participate in the case but is now doing it from an ICE detention center.
From Salon
He was calling from San Bernardino County, where he’d been held in an immigration detention center for months.
From Los Angeles Times
A light amid the worry, however, is the community that her mother has built at the detention center.
From Los Angeles Times
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.
From Los Angeles Times
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