"Each day in detention feels like 48 hours for Olivia. The 19-year-old asylum seeker from the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Texas for more than four months."
"The nights, Olivia said, are the hardest. During the first weeks after her arrest, she would scream in her sleep, but now she struggles to sleep much at all."
"She feels sad that she and her family have been through so much, kept fighting to survive, kept going even after they lost Manuel, only to end up at Dilley."
Olivia, a 19-year-old asylum seeker from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, has been detained at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Texas for over four months. She was apprehended with her family, but they were separated multiple times. Olivia experiences severe emotional distress, struggling with sleepless nights filled with nightmares and memories of her deceased brother. The facility currently holds about 5,600 immigrants, including many children, prompting calls from advocates and lawmakers to shut it down and end child incarceration.
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