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Migrants face degrading treatment at US detention centres

Federal officers wearing face coverings lookIng at documents in a hallway outside of a courtroom.[AFP]

Immigrants held at US detention centres have experienced abusive and degrading treatment, a Human Rights Watch report said Monday, in a sharp rebuke of President Donald Trump's migrant crackdown.

The 92-page report alleges medical neglect, overcrowding and "inhuman" cell conditions at a time when the Trump administration is ramping up immigration enforcement with the promise of deporting millions.

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