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THE AUDACITY: ICE Weaponizes Detained Kids To Force Parents To Forfeit Rights

THE AUDACITY: ICE Weaponizes Detained Kids To Force Parents To Forfeit Rights

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The The Marshall Project reports:

Leave it to the American immigration machine to turn parental love into an instrument of legal extortion. Federal authorities are dragging out the detention of children so long that desperate parents are forced to abandon their legal fights just to hold their kids again.

As children languish in detention, a federal judge threatens to sic an independent watchdog on ICE.

The Marshall Project

When state agencies use jailed children as bargaining chips to deny due process, it is not a flaw in the system—it is the point.

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