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Immigration advocates claim the U.S. government is clearing detention space at the southwest border to make room for more migrants and their families, by moving hundreds of detainees to jails in other parts of the country, including Albany.
Camille Mackler, Director of Immigrant Services Support at the New York Immigration Coalition, said the government "has essentially moved the southern border to Albany, New York."