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Ian Urbina

Ian Urbina is the director of the journalism nonprofit the Outlaw Ocean Project. While at the Times, he shared a Pulitzer Prize for breaking news.

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The Secretive Prisons That Keep Migrants Out of Europe
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Ian Urbina writes that the E.U., tired of migrants arriving from Africa, has created a shadow immigration system that captures them before they reach its shores, and sends them to brutal Libyan detention centers run by militias.