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Asylum Seekers Win in Court as Federal Judge Rules Against Indefinite & Arbitrary Detention; From Separating Families to Jailing Asylum Seekers, Trump Admin Accused of Criminalizing Migration; As Gov’t Struggles to Reunite Families, Detained Mothers Are Organizing to Find Their Kids; Concentration Camps in the U.S.: Andrea Pitzer Decries Tent Cities for Detaining Kids Without … Continued