Vigil Against Hutto part 1

Texans United for Families is organizing a vigil to assert the dignity and humanity of the children and families being held in the T. Don Hutto immigrant detention center in Taylor, Texas. The jail is operated by Corrections Corporation of America, a private, for-profit prison company. The detention center is one of the first jails to detain entire families caught at points of entry, raising many legal and moral issues.
Children, even toddlers, are housed in cells with their parents until the Department of Homeland Security arranges for their deportation or they are granted asylum or they manage to secure a bond for their release, a process that could take several months. Children are provided with no more than one hour of school and recreation per day, and many have lost significant amounts of weight and suffered illness since their arrival to the facility.

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