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Lawyers Petition to Spring Asylum Seekers From Detention Amid Houston COVID Surge

‘DANGEROUS DETENTION CONDITIONS’

As coronavirus cases spike around Houston, a group of attorneys and advocates are urgently seeking the release of asylum seekers being held in a facility in “abysmal conditions.”

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