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She celebrated her 11th birthday in ICE detention. Her wish: that her family could go home

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Three months ago, Manpreet was looking forward to her 11th birthday party. Her brother Guri, 12, was excited about his class field trip for Black history month. Now their future looks like a void. The siblings and their parents have been detained since February at the Dilley immigration processing center in Texas , after they were taken into custody during a routine check-in appointment. Their father, Jagdish, worries that months of detention have changed his children. Manpreet is often angry or cranky. Guri has more or less stopped listening to his parents. “They were never like that before,” Jagdish said. But he understands why. “The kids keep spinning on the same questions: ‘what will happen next? When will we get out? Where will we go?’” Jagdish said. It hurts that he can’t give them any answers. The family said they fled Punjab, India, because Jagdish, who had converted from Sikhism to Catholicism, faced persistent threats and violence in his community due to his religion.…

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