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On Mothers’ Day, 18-year-old Yesenia and her three younger siblings found themselves in a situation no one would want their children to face. Their mother had tested positive for COVID-19 while imprisoned at Otay Mesa Detention Center in San Diego—a for-profit immigrant detention facility where less than two weeks earlier, another immigrant had died of the virus. 

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