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A day in the life of a 19-year-old in ICE detention: ‘I feel that this nightmare is not going to end’

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. Continue reading...

Maanvi Singh · Thu, Apr 9, 2026, 4:00 AM
US news | The Guardian

A day in the life of a 19-year-old in ICE detention: ‘I feel that this nightmare is not going to end’

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.

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