detention camp
Example Sentences
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It focuses on a group called the French 75, who kick things off by liberating an immigration detention camp at the U.S.-Mexico border.
From Los Angeles Times
The group - thought by authorities to be the wives and children of IS fighters - have been stuck in Roj detention camp until now, with the Australian government refusing to officially repatriate them.
From BBC
Sudani has also cooperated with the United States to bring into Iraq a caravan of Islamic State prisoners from Syria, where the army recently moved on Kurdish fighters who had run the detention camps.
From Barron's
Escape attempts from the largest detention camp in northeast Syria, Al Hol, have increased this year.
Thousands still sit in detention camps in the area.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
