Worms in food, poor medical care, lights on 24/7: Families tell of life in Texas detention center

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By GARANCE BURKE, ADAM GELLER and VALERIE GONZALEZ

LAREDO, Texas (AP) — A month after ICE agents sent the young Ecuadorian mother and her 7-year-old daughter to a sprawling detention center 1,300 miles from their Minnesota home, they were finally free.

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