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The Guardian - US
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Sam Levin in Los Angeles

ICE bans hugging inside California’s largest detention center. Families are fighting back

Collage of man in Ice detention
Allen Tayson: ‘Everything is meant to break you down and discourage you and make you give up hope.’ Composite: The Guardian/Getty Images/Allen Tayson

Teresa Reyes drove 300 miles to be with her son on his 32nd birthday in May, but she couldn’t give him a gift, share a meal with him or give him a hug. She couldn’t even touch him.

Her son, Guillermo, a tattoo artist from San Jose, is locked up in the California City immigration detention center, California’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility, and the only way he can see his mother is behind a thick pane of glass.

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