Immigration

A firsthand look inside America’s largest immigration processing center

By Anna Giaritelli
Published June 27, 2018 10:00am ET
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A firsthand look inside America’s largest immigration processing center
An immigrant woman wears an ankle monitor as she walks through the central bus station after being processed and released by U.S. Customs and Border Protection on June 24, 2018, in McAllen, Texas. | (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

MCALLEN, TEXAS — As the weekend came to a close Sunday night, Border Patrol agents in McAllen, Texas, were tending to a parentless four-month-old baby girl who had just been brought to the region’s processing center after being apprehended while crossing the Rio Grande.

It was another case of family separation, but this one was not like the thousands of others.

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