Following a 1925 investigation into deportees’ conditions of confinement, a grand jury in #Galveston declared detention in the jail “a crime against humanity,” while a local reporter wrote of the dangers of “sending these unwelcome guests back to their countries embittered by months spent in a reeking jail.” https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-jails-migrant-incarceration/

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