{"id":8153,"date":"2026-04-09T11:20:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T11:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oko-oko.net\/?p=8153"},"modified":"2026-04-09T11:20:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T11:20:21","slug":"a-day-in-the-life-of-a-19-year-old-in-ice-detention-i-feel-that-this-nightmare-is-not-going-to-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oko-oko.net\/?p=8153","title":{"rendered":"A day in the life of a 19-year-old in ICE detention: \u2018I feel that this nightmare is not going to end\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Olivia has been detained for months at the sprawling Dilley center in Texas. She has lost 20lbs, and wakes up every day with a headache<\/p>\n<p>Each day in detention feels like 48 hours for Olivia.<\/p>\n<p>The 19-year-old asylum seeker from the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Texas for more than four months.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/09\/day-in-the-life-19-year-old-ice-detention\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Olivia has been detained for months at the sprawling Dilley center in Texas. She has lost 20lbs, and wakes up every day with a headache Each day in detention feels like 48 hours for Olivia. The 19-year-old asylum seeker from the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[92,138,135,491,75,73,62,77,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-democratic-republic-of-the-congo","category-ice-us-immigration-and-customs-enforcement","category-texas","category-trump-administration","category-us-immigration","category-us-news","category-us-politics","category-world-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oko-oko.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oko-oko.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oko-oko.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oko-oko.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oko-oko.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oko-oko.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oko-oko.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oko-oko.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oko-oko.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}