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Six-year-old Maddie asks a judge to free her and her father after 195 days at the Berks immigrant detention center

Federal immigration authorities have offered to release young Maddie to her mother in New Jersey, ending the confinement of a 6-year-old Guatemalan girl held at the Berks County detention center for a record 195 days. But they won’t free her father.

Immigration advocates have called for the closure of the Berks County detention center, where 6-year-old Maddie and her father are being held.
Immigration advocates have called for the closure of the Berks County detention center, where 6-year-old Maddie and her father are being held.Read moreBill Uhrich / Reading Eagle File