by Jeff Gammage, Updated: January 7, 2020- 8:02 PM
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For now, Maddie isn’t going anywhere.
Two days of contentious legal arguments concluded Tuesday evening with no ruling on whether the 6-year-old Guatemalan girl, who has spent a record 195 days in the Berks County immigrant detention center, could soon leave with her father.
U.S. District Judge Joshua Wolson said he would rule as quickly as possible.
The fate of the girl, known by a first name, and her father, identified in court only as Mr. H., is being decided amid a broad public debate over the nation’s treatment of migrant children, and as advocates raise new calls and legal claims to try to close the Pennsylvania detention center.
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