Olivia has been detained for months at the sprawling Dilley center in Texas. She has lost 20lbs, and wakes up every day with a headache
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.
“Another day passes, another night comes,” she said. “And sometimes I feel that this nightmare is not going to end.”
She is one of about 5,600 immigrants, more than half of them children, who have been detained at the sprawling Texas facility since it reopened last year. In recent months, human rights advocates, pediatricians and lawmakers have all called on the Trump administration to shut down the facility – and to stop incarcerating children.
