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The Texas Tribune
The Texas Tribune
National
By Ellie Ashby, The Texas Tribune, and Chloe Landen, Religion News Service

Japanese internment survivors, faith leaders demand closure of South Texas ICE detention center

Roughly two dozen immigration advocates, faith leaders, Japanese internment camp survivors and their descendants completed a four-day, 45-mile pilgrimage Saturday to an immigrant detention facility outside of Dilley.

The activists demanded the closure of the only federal family detention center, described by a Japanese internment survivor as inhumane and a tragic “repetition of American history.”

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