Activists Demand Closure of South Texas Migrant Detention Center

Japanese Internment Survivors Gather to Demand Closure of Texas ICE Jail

The survivors made a four-day pilgrimage on foot from the site of a Japanese internment camp to the Dilley ICE jail.

Japanese internment camp survivors demand closure of Dilley, TX family detention center

DILLEY, Texas (RNS and Texas Tribune) — Roughly two dozen immigration advocates, faith leaders, Japanese internment camp survivors and their descendants completed a four-day, 45-mile pilgrimage Saturday to an immigrant detention facility outside of Dilley. The activists demanded the closure of the only federal family detention center, described by a Japanese internment survivor as inhumane and a tragic “repetition of American history.” Free Fami…

Activists demand closure of South Texas migrant detention center

Completing a pilgrimage from a World War II internment camp in Crystal City, activists said history is repeating itself with family detentions at the Dilley facility.

Japanese Americans march against ICE detention in South Texas

A group of Japanese American incarceration camp survivors completed a four-day, 45-mile march to the ICE immigrant detention facility in Dilley, Texas, on Saturday, to demand its closure and an […] The post Japanese Americans march against ICE detention in South Texas appeared first on AsAmNews.