View image in fullscreen Leqaa Kordia waves to supporters after being released from the Prairieland detention center in Alvarado, Texas, on 16 March. View image in fullscreen Leqaa Kordia: ‘The word “detention center” sounds nice. It’s a jail.”For all the current talk about ICE, Kordia believes that the general public doesn’t have an understanding of what conditions in immigration detention are like. Kordia said the daily “humiliation” and “stripping people of their dignity” she had known in Palestine was an experience anyone in immigration detention could understand. “They don’t call you by name, they call you ‘subject’, or by number,” she said of ICE guards and Israeli soldiers alike.

Source: The Guardian April 01, 2026 14:04 UTC