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flashl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-07-08 06:08 AM
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U.S. Gives Tour of Family Detention Center That Critics Liken to a Prison

Responding to complaints about conditions at the nation’s main family detention center for illegal immigrants, officials threw open the gates on Friday for a first news media tour.

They portrayed the privately run converted prison, open since May, as a model facility “primarily focused on the safety of the children.”

Once all the barbed wire comes down, Gary Mead, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement official, said, “it’s going to look more like a community college with a very high chain-link fence.”

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