eight-metre-high chain-link fence, beyond the scores of uniformed
guards patrolling the perimeter and away from the cameras, metal
detectors and lasers, there isn't the slightest evidence of children
inside the T. Don Hutto Family Detention Center.
No one is playing outside; there are no sounds of laughter.
But inside the thick, whitewashed walls of this former maximum-security
prison in the heart of Texas are about 170 children — including a
nine-year-old Canadian boy named Kevin.
Call it international limbo. Detained by U.S. Customs officials after
their flight to Toronto made an unscheduled stop on American soil
nearly four weeks ago, Kevin and his Iranian parents, Majid and
Masomeh, feel they are being held hostage not only by the physical
parameters of Hutto, but by the politics of nationality
“We can't go home because I am Canadian but my parents are not,” Kevin
said in a telephone interview with The Globe and Mail — no personal
interviews have been granted."
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