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A team of attorneys has met with immigrant women detained at a recently opened government facility in Artesia, N.M.

On Tuesday, lawyers with the American Civil Liberties Union and the National Immigration Law Center traveled to Artesia and interviewed 25 women and children from El Salvador. 

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Immigrant families are housed in these rooms at the detention facility in Artesia, New Mexico. The facility only admits women and children.

In 1982, during the civil war in El Salvador, a U.S. District Court found U.S. immigration officials had wrongly deported Salvadorans eligible for asylum. To this day the court order, known as the Orantes Injuction, mandates Salvadorans under immigration custody must get extra legal protections, including a written description of the rights. 

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Immigrant women and children are being housed at a newly opened detention facility in Artesia, New Mexico.

But Cecillia Wang, who directs the ACLU's Immigrant Rights Project, worries that's not happening. 

"We heard stories of women who were given a form in English to sign without having a translation, without having a lawyer to help," she said. 

At least two planeloads of migrants held in New Mexico have already been deported since late June. Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson has said the quick deportations send a necessary message that there is no 'free pass' into the United States.