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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
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Brian Osgood

‘Like a jailhouse’: Afghans languish in US detention centres

Afghan refugees protest against slow visa processing at a demonstration in Islamabad, Pakistan, on February 26 [File: Rahmat Gul/AP Photo]

The immigration detention centre was packed. There were more than 100 people in a single room meant to accommodate less than 20.

A, an Afghan man who asked that his name be withheld, had come to the United States with his wife to seek safety. But as they experienced their first few days on US soil, a different reality sank in: one in which their future was all but certain.

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