As the US looks to extend the time children can be held, former detainees discuss their harrowing experiences
The first memory Hilda RamÃrez has of the United States is the sound of helicopters. Four years ago, she, her eight-year-old son, Ivan, and five other migrants from Central America piled into a small raft on the southern bank of the Rio Grande, the final step in a perilous trip through Mexico that she had begun one week before.
When the group crossed the border near McAllen, Texas, they were immediately surrounded by Border Patrol agents, boats and a helicopter circling overhead. RamÃrez and her son were sent to a detention center – Karnes county residential center in Karnes City, Texas – where they spent the next 11 months.
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