
Leqaa Kordia and the mass detention program
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With leadership changes at the Department of Homeland Security, how have conditions changed for migrants in detention centers?
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Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker staff writer and the author of Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis (Penguin Press, 2024), talks about the scale of the U.S. immigrant detention program, health and safety issues and expansion plans, following the firing of DHS Sec. Kristi Noem.
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