The Christmas Island detention centre is not a single detention centre – rather those incarcerated are split into separate compounds, given anodyne titles such as White, Gold and Lilac.
"If people tease me, which is much less often, I am now able to walk away," says James. "And I haven't had a single detention this year," says Tom. Another major challenge for the boys has been learning to cope with change.
What you did not mention, however, is that more people are detained every single day in detention today than were detained yearly at Angel Island.
Eli Yishai, the former interior minister, urged the government "to put every single one of the infiltrators in detention facilities, take their work permits, put them on aeroplanes and send them packing to their countries or a third country".
Back in my heyday of being a teen, I was late to school almost every single day, which resulted in several lunch detentions a month.
Hold it every single day.
'Every single solitary right a parent has is taken away in detention.'.
The detention centers on Manus and Nauru must be evacuated and every single detained man, woman and child brought to Australia so they can be properly cared for".
Every day, every single day".
