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The Stewart Detention Center is seen through the front gate, Friday, Nov. 15, 2019, in Lumpkin, Ga. The rural town is about 140 miles southwest of Atlanta and next to the Georgia-Alabama state line. The town’s 1,172 residents are outnumbered by the roughly 1,650 male detainees that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said were being held in the detention center in late November. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

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In immigrant courts across US, there’s nonstop chaos

by Kate Brumback Associated Press, Deepti Hajela Associated Press, and Amy Taxin Associated PressJanuary 16, 2020

LUMPKIN, Ga. — In a locked, guarded courtroom in a compound surrounded by razor wire, Immigration Judge Jerome Rothschild waits – and stalls.A Spanish interpreter is running late because of a flat tire. Rothschild tells the five immigrants before him…

FILE - In this Dec. 11, 2018 file photo, an asylum-seeking boy from Central America runs down a hallway after arriving from an immigration detention center to a shelter in San Diego. The Trump administration will make a case in court to end a longstanding settlement governing detention conditions for immigrant children, including how long they can be held by the government. A hearing is scheduled before a federal judge Friday, Sept. 27, 2019, in Los Angeles over the so-called Flores...

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Judge blocks Trump rules for detained migrant kids

by Amy Taxin Associated PressSeptember 27, 2019

This June 2018 photo provided by Rob McClelland shows Allie Kurtz aboard a sailboat. Kurtz, a 26-year-old scuba diving boat crewmember who loved the ocean and had just landed her dream job, is among multiple victims of a deadly fire that torched a dive boat off Southern California's coast, her family said on Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2019. Kurtz recently left a job in movie promotion with Paramount to follow her heart and work on the sea, said her grandmother, Doris Lapporte. (Rob McClelland via AP)

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Families, engineers, free spirits among boat fire victims

by Julie Watson Associated Press, and Amy Taxin Associated PressSeptember 5, 2019

In this July 15 photo, protesters hold signs outside of the Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children while members of Congress tour the facility in Homestead, Fla.

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Trump moves to end limits on migrant children detention

by Colleen Long Associated Press, and Amy Taxin Associated PressAugust 21, 2019

Protesters hold signs outside of the San Francisco Federal Courthouse on Wednesday.

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Judge blocks Trump’s new asylum restrictions at US-Mexico border

by Amy Taxin Associated Press, and Ashraf Khalil Associated PressJuly 24, 2019

The entrance to the Border Patrol station in Clint, Texas, Wednesday, June 26, 2019. Migrant children being housed at the Border Patrol facility near El Paso appeared mostly clean and were being watched by hallway monitors on Wednesday, less than a week since they reported living there in squalid conditions with inadequate food, water and sanitation. (AP Photo/Cedar Attanasio)

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Child migrants decry illness, filth in border detention

by Cedar Attanasio Associated Press, Amy Taxin Associated Press, and Astrid Galvan Associated PressJune 27, 2019

Sadek Ahmed walks with his sons Adel, 9, right, and Mutaz, 7, after picking them up from school in Brooklyn, New York.

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Travel ban forces Americans to wait years for loved ones

by Deepti Hajela Associated Press, and Amy Taxin Associated PressMay 8, 2019

Ali De Leon pauses at a growing memorial with her son Leo and her dog Vinny across the street from the Chabad of Poway synagogue in Poway, Calif., on Monday, April 29, 2019. A gunman opened fire on Saturday, April 27 at the synagogue as dozens of people were worshipping exactly six months after a mass shooting in a Pittsburgh synagogue. (AP Photo/Greg Bull)

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FBI got tips about threat minutes before synagogue shooting

by Amy Taxin Associated Press, Christopher Weber Associated Press, and Michael Balsamo Associated PressApril 29, 2019

Louise Turpin sits in a courtroom Friday, Feb. 22, 2019, in Riverside, Calif. Turpin and her husband, David, who shackled some of their 13 children to beds and starved them pleaded guilty Friday to torture and other abuse. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, Pool)

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California parents of 13 plead guilty to torture, abuse

by Amy Taxin Associated PressFebruary 22, 2019

FILE - In this June 20, 2018, file photo, immigrant children walk in a line outside the Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children, a former Job Corps site that now houses them in Homestead, Fla. Some immigrant youth looking to start over in the United States after fleeing abusive homes are seeing their applications for green cards rejected because the Trump administration says they're too old. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson, File)

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Administration denies status to young immigrants due to age

by Amy Taxin Associated Press, and Deepti Hajela Associated PressJanuary 2, 2019