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July 26, 2019

Oklahoma Suspends Plans to Jail 1,600 Migrant Children at Fort Sill
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In Oklahoma, Republican Senator Jim Inhofe said Thursday that plans to
jail 1,600 migrant children at the Fort Sill U.S. Army base have been
halted. Inhofe's announcement came just days after hundreds of
protesters shut down the entrance to Fort Sill as part of a series of
protests against Republican Governor Kevin Stitt's efforts to imprison
migrant children there. Fort Sill was used during World War II to
incarcerate Japanese Americans. It was also once a prison for Native
Americans.


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