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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Alex Woodward

ICE confirms measles inside Texas detention center holding growing number of immigrant families

Donald Trump’s administration has confirmed at least two “active measles infections” among immigrant detainees at a family detention center in Texas, hours after the release of a five-year-old boy and his father whose case fueled outrage against the president’s mass deportation efforts.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement is “ceasing all movement” at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center and is quarantining anyone “suspected of making contact with the infected,” according to the Department of Homeland Security.

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