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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Oliver Laughland in Alexandria, Louisiana, Will Craft and Raima Amjad

Trump’s deportation hub: inside the ‘black hole’ where immigrants disappear

An airplane and arcing lines shooting upward from a low building with a group of people, vehicles and a plane gathered nearby.

He arrived in Alexandria exhausted and sick.

It was early April, and Amilcar Lisser-Posadas – shackled at his hands and feet – had been transferred from a nearby immigration detention center to this remote US immigration facility in Louisiana. He feared it would be his last stop before deportation.

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