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Inside Mexico’s Largest Detention Center: A Q&A with Belén Fernández

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Inside Mexico’s Largest Detention Center: A Q&A with Belén Fernández

“There may not be human rights in Siglo XXI,” the name of the Tapachula immigration detention center where the author and journalist was imprisoned, “but there’s lots of humanity.”

Todd Miller
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Inside Mexico’s Largest Detention Center: A Q&A with Belén Fernández

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In 2012, former Customs and Border Protection official Alan Bersin proclaimed that “our southern border” is now with Guatemala.

In her great new book, titled Inside Siglo XXI: Locked Up in Mexico’s Largest Detention Center, author and journalist Belén Fernández writes about this underdiscussed part of the U.S. border from the on-the-ground perspective of…

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