Children as Young as Three Detained 500 Days and Counting in Disgraceful Immigrant Prisons

At "Berks Family Residential Center," kids contemplate suicide as their mothers go on hunger strike. For more than 600 days and two Christmas holidays, Marlene and her seven-year-old son Antonio have languished in indefinite detention at Pennsylvania’s “Berks Family Residential Center,” a glorified term for an immigrant prison. Her child has been granted Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS), which the U.S. government says is supposed to “help foreign children in the U