VivirLatino

T. Don Hutto Residential Center in Texas “used” to be a prison. But now the Department of Homeland Security is nice enough and is using it to “house” immigrants being considered for deportation or asylum and their children. This includes pregnant women.

…double-layered chain link fence topped with concertina wire in places. Or the uniformed, handcuff-toting correctional officers – called “counselors” – and the tight two-person cells where mothers and children live for weeks or months awaiting their fate.

A prison by any other name is still a prison.

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