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Politics

Family detained at Washington border was held for over three weeks before release

Kirsten Kendrick

The ACLU of Washington is investigating potential civil rights violations in the detention of the family from Africa as they sought asylum in Canada at the Washington border.

Images taken from U.S. Customs and Border Protection surveillance video show men wrapped in Mylar thermal blankets in a cell at a Border Patrol holding facility in Tucson, Ariz., in August 2015.

News

Surveillance Stills From Border Patrol Facilities Show Crowded, Trash-Filled Cells

Camila Domonoske

As part of a lawsuit, images from surveillance cameras at holding cells in Arizona have been made public. They show people huddled together, wrapped in thermal blankets, on bare concrete floors.

U.S. Senate narrows area for Border Patrol checkpoints

Tom Banse

The U.S. Senate wants to put a stop to Border Patrol checkpoints and warrantless searches taking place far from the border with Canada. The policy change…