Eye on Texas: Family Detention
A version of this story ran in the December 2015 issue.
Above: Residents line up for a meal at Dilley’s South Texas Family Residential Center, the largest immigrant detention center in the United States.
At one point when I was at the detention center with a New York Times reporter, women surrounded us, asking for help getting out. “Tell our stories, show our faces,” they said. It was an unsettling experience.
In the six months since the photos were taken, the situation has changed. The women’s asylum requests are being processed more quickly and more people have been released to stay with relatives and friends.
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