A federal ruling says they should’ve been freed months ago.
News Story (Texas)
Roque Planas
Huffington Post
May 26, 2017
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Tags: Asylum, Deportation
Organizations mentioned/involved: RAICES (Texas)
News Story (Texas)
Roque Planas
Huffington Post
May 26, 2017
READ THE FULL STORY HERE
Tags: Asylum, Deportation
Organizations mentioned/involved: RAICES (Texas)
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A woman locked at a family immigrant detention center tried to take her own life this month in what legal advocates described as a desperate effort to free her two kids.
Samira Hakimi, an Afghan national, has spent the last six months detained with her two young children despite a federal ruling that dictates they should have been released within three weeks. The case reinforces the longstanding concerns of immigrant rights groups that say asylum-seeking families should not be forced into prolonged detention.
“They told us you will only be a couple of days in there,” Hakimi told HuffPost. “I never thought that I would be detained here for such a long time. That I’m detained here because I’m from Afghanistan and that’s all. But I’m human.”