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Parents are giving up green card fights to get their kids out of immigrant jail

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By Lauren Villagran Verified
| Dallas Observer Verified
A 2026 protest outside of the ICE detention center in Dilley, TX where children are often detained. This article was first published by The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal justice system. Sign up for their newsletters, and follow them on Instagram, TikTok, Reddit and Facebook.
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Parents are giving up green card fights to get their kids out of immigrant jail

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By Lauren Villagran Verified
| Texas Standard Verified
The Trump administration has aggressively expanded detention, requiring that immigrants remain locked up while waiting for an immigration judge to decide their case. As a result, more than 66,000 parents and children have been detained and deported since Trump took office last year, according to an analysis of federal data by Austin Kocher, president of Relevant Research, which tracks how many people the government is holding in immigrant camps.
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Parents are Giving Up Green Card Fights to Get Their Kids Out of Immigrant Jail

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By Lauren Villagran Verified
| Texas Metro News
As children languish in detention, a federal judge sics an independent watchdog on ICE. By Lauren Villagran The Marshall Project https://www.themarshallproject.org/ Ana Kikabidze with her daughter, Lizi, in 2024. Kikabidze and her two children were held for weeks at Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Texas before an immigration judge ordered them to be deported to their native country of Georgia.
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