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Miguel Armenta

“It feels like I am still inside [the Northwest Detention Center] but in a beautiful place." 

Born in Puebla, Mexico and immigrated to the United States at the age of 12, Miguel Armenta, shares his experience being detained at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, WA for over a year. He discusses his reasons for organizing and leading the Hunger Strike in 2014, sharing the terrible living and working conditions that he lived through. Miguel also explains how his life has changed as a result of his detention.

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