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The Stewart Detention Center for ICE detainees is seen through the front gate, Friday, Nov. 15, 2019, in Lumpkin, Georgia. The rural town is about 140 miles southwest of Atlanta and next to the Georgia-Alabama state line. (David Goldman/AP)
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