Tag: Kids in US Immigration Detention

NOVANEWS A child detainee and her letter asking Santa for "freedom" | Photo: ACLU “Dear Santa Claus, I want a present and that present should be my liberty,” wrote one 2-year-old facing his second Christmas behind bars. The Obama administration refuses to release children held for a second year in the notorious Berks immigration detention center, despite a federal court ruling that they should be immediately released into the care of family members in the U.S. RELATED: Striking Immigrant Moms Forced to Eat or See Kids Confiscated Seventeen mothers and their 19 children, all fleeing the violence of the U.S. war on drugs in Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala, remain in the controversial Pennsylvania facility as they await an appeal to the Supreme Court about the leg...