As Immigrant Arrests Surge, Complaints of Abuse Mount at America's Oldest Detention Center in Miami

Detained Chinese immigrants carved their anguish into a wall a century ago. Those words inspired a ballet

Oakland Ballet Company takes on a harrowing chapter of US-Chinese history with a piece about Angel Island, ‘the Ellis Island of the west’One sunny March day on Angel Island, a hilly landmass in the middle of the San Francisco Bay, a dancer with a 40-ft braid attached to her head glided across a narrow concrete walkway. The audience sat on chairs in front of a long wooden building: a former detention center where – from 1910 to 1940 – half a mill…

As Immigrant Arrests Surge, Complaints of Abuse Mount at America's Oldest Detention Center in Miami

As hundreds of migrants crowded into the Krome Detention Center in Miami on the edge of the Florida Everglades, a palpable fear of an uprising set in among its staff.

Complaints of abuse mount at America’s oldest detention center in Miami

As President Trump seeks to make good on his campaign pledge of removals of migrants, the U.S. immigration detention system is bulging with prisoners.

As immigrant arrests surge, complaints of abuse mount at detention center in Miami

As President Donald Trump seeks to make good on his campaign pledge of mass arrests and removals of migrants, the U.S. immigration detention system is being overrun with prisoners