An immigrant advocacy group left child-sized mannequins in cages all around New York City early Wednesday morning to protest the treatment of children at immigration detention centers
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The Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services had set up the cages in front of Google and major news organizations throughout the city, according to the New York Police Department. The displays included audio of children wailing that RAICES said were recordings of actual detained children crying, obtained by ProPublica in their investigation of families being separated at the US Border.A NYPD spokeswoman said that police found and removed eight of the cages.
— Ujala Sehgal June 12, 2019Read MoreBadger says that she hopes the art incites change."It's time to stop treating these children like numbers that don't matter in the world," said Badger."Hearing their cries is a way to stop people from not caring.""'They can't even go outside and play. We don't even allow dogs to be treated that way," Badger said.
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