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FILE - In this June 30, 2015, file photo, signs are seen at the entrance to the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas. The 2,400-bed detention facility that the Trump administration is using to detain immigrant mothers and children will now operate under an arrangement the U.S. government quietly reached with a private prison operator and the city where it's located. The Associated Press obtained contracts that show U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement will maintain largely the same structure that government auditors criticized earlier this year. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

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New deal keeps open facility that detains immigrant families

by Nomaan Merchant Associated PressOctober 17, 2018

The Rev. Manuel LaRosa-Lopez, above, was arrested Tuesday by police in Conroe, Texas.

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Abuse scandal hits diocese of cardinal set to meet with pope

by Nomaan Merchant Associated PressSeptember 12, 2018

Franco Perez cries as he runs downstairs from his family’s apartment in Covington, Ky., on April 28, looking for his father, Edgar Perez Ramirez, who had walked outside for a moment. Months after immigration enforcement arrested and released his father, the 4-year-old still shows more aggression toward his classmates and panics if his father leaves him for more than a few minutes.

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Hunger, fear, desperation: What came of an ordinary ICE raid

by Nomaan Merchant Associated PressJuly 9, 2018

A protester carries the flag outside the Port of Entry facility, Thursday, June 21, 2018, in Fabens, Texas where tent shelters are being used to house separated family members. President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed an order to stop the separations. Justice Department lawyers are working on a legal challenge to allow families to be detained longer than 20 days. (AP Photo/Matt York)

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Confusion, uncertainty at the border after Trump acts

by Nomaan Merchant Associated Press, and Susan Montoya Bryan Associated PressJune 21, 2018

In this Monday, June 4, 2018 photo, a volunteer interviews people seeking political asylum in the United States in Tijuana, Mexico, just across the U.S. border south of San Diego. The Trump administration's fighting words for asylum seekers don't appear to be having much impact at U.S. border crossings with Mexico. Lines keep growing, so much that U.S. authorities can't take them all at once. Some volunteers tell people they might have to wait up to three weeks. (AP Photo/Elliot Spagat)

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Undeterred by Trump, asylum-seekers line up at border

by Elliot Spagat Associated Press, and Nomaan Merchant Associated PressJune 7, 2018

Arizona’s Republican Gov. Doug Ducey, front right, meets with Arizona National Guard soldiers prior to their deployment to the Mexico border at the Papago Park Military Reservation on Monday, April 9, in Phoenix. Ducey told the group of soldiers preparing to deploy from the Phoenix military base that their “mission is about providing manpower and resources” to support agencies on the border and denied that there was a political motive.

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National Guard members arrive at US-Mexico border

by Nomaan Merchant Associated Press, and Bob Christie Associated PressApril 10, 2018

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents gather before serving a employment audit notice at a 7-Eleven convenience store Wednesday, in Los Angeles.

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Immigration agents descend on 7-Eleven stores in 17 states

by Elliot Spagat Associated Press, and Nomaan Merchant Associated PressJanuary 10, 2018

FILE - This April 22, 2008, file photo shows a dorm area of the T. Don Hutto Residential Center in Taylor, Texas. Laura Monterrosa who is housed at the detention facility waiting to find out if she'll be allowed to stay in the United States, has accused a guard at the facility of groping her and suggesting they have sex. As the national discussion of sexual misconduct grows, advocates for immigrants say they hope the conversation will include immigrant detention facilities. They point to the FBI announcing December 2017 that it had opened a civil rights investigation into Monterrosa's case as a positive sign. (AP Photo/Donna McWilliam, File)

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Advocates want #MeToo debate to include immigrant detention

by Nomaan Merchant Associated PressJanuary 8, 2018

In this Aug. 11, 2017, photo, immigrants suspected of crossing into the United States illegally along the Rio Grande near Granjeno, Texas, are held by U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents. The election of President Donald Trump contributed to a dramatic downturn in migration, causing the number of arrests at the border to hit an all-time low in April and helping the U.S. end the 2017 fiscal year at a 45-year low. But since then, the number of immigrants caught at the southern border has been increasing monthly. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

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Border crossings start to rise in spite of ‘Trump effect’

by Nomaan Merchant Associated PressDecember 7, 2017

Bailey LeJeaune, 17, and David Betancourt, 18, hold candles during a vigil in Sutherland Springs for the victims of a deadly shooting at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, Sunday, Nov. 5, 2017. A man opened fire inside of the church in the small South Texas community on Sunday, killing more than 20 people. (Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via AP)

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Church gunman was court-martialed, discharged from Air Force

by Nomaan Merchant Associated Press, and Paul J. Weber Associated PressNovember 6, 2017