Amy Goodman
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Migrant Women, Children Allege Harsh Conditions, Sexual Assault at For-Profit Texas Immigration Jail
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17:54Now PlayingBroadcasting from San Antonio, we look at a new family detention center just south of the city that holds more than 500 immigrant women and their children as they await deportation. The forprofit Karnes County Residential Center is owned by the GEO Group, the secondlargest private prison company in the United States. Many women imprisoned at the Karnes facility have accused guards of sexually assaulting them. A federal complaint filed last week says guards are promising the women help with their immigration cases in return for sexual favors. Many of the detainees came to the United States seeking asylum from violence in their home countries of Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador. But the Obama administration says it is detaining them in order to discourage more migrants from coming. We hear from one of the facility's few detainees to be released since a wave of migrants arrived in August, an El Salvador national who came with her 7yearold daughter, who suffers from brain cancer. We also speak to Javier Maldonado, an immigration attorney involved in the detainees' case alleging sexual assault and poor conditions, and Cristina Parker, the immigration projects coordinator for Grassroots Leadership and coauthor of their new report, "ForProfit Family DetentionMeet the Private Prison Corporations Making Millions by Locking Up Refugee Families."
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