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Detaining refugee children at military bases may sound un-American, but it's been done before

  • Written by Jana Lipman, Associate Professor of History, Tulane University
Children line up to enter a tent at the Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children in Homestead, Fla., Feb. 19, 2019.AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee

Fort Sill, an army base in Oklahoma, will soon become a refugee camp. The Department of Health and Human Services expects the repurposed military facility to house up to 1,400 unaccompanied migrant...

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