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The immigrant rights movement had a major victory earlier this month when federal officials confirmed that a Pennsylvania facility long targeted by demonstrators for abuses against children and adults would be losing its contract. The Berks County Residential Center detained migrant families for many years, and more recently adult women. It’s set to lose its contract early next year.
Now advocates are trying to ensure that the remaining women still detained at Berks are released to their own homes and communities, rather than transferred to another abusive site. Advocates tell WESA that women there have no criminal record, are very young, and are very scared.
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