Immigrant families in detention: A look inside one holding center
9 years, 9 months ago

Immigrant families in detention: A look inside one holding center

LA Times  

The South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley can house up to 2,400 people with a staff of nearly 700, including teachers, pediatricians and psychiatrists. ------------ FOR THE RECORD This story reported, accurately, that the lights at the South Texas Family Residential Center were dimmed at night but kept on 24 hours a day for security. Another boy volunteered, correctly: “Muy mal.” In another trailer, 45 women listened with their children to a man from the center’s legal orientation program. “I would tell his mother what was happening, and she would say, ‘In order to have a home, you have to put up with it,’” she said.

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Trump administration resumes detention of immigrant families after Biden-era pause
2 weeks ago

Trump administration resumes detention of immigrant families after Biden-era pause

Associated Press  

McALLEN, Texas — The Trump administration resumed family detention of immigrants last week in a South Texas facility after a Biden-era pause, a legal nonprofit group providing services to migrant families said Wednesday. Fourteen immigrant families with children as young as one year old were in the detention facility in Karnes County, Texas, about 50 miles southeast of San Antonio, …

Privately run immigration detention center that previously held families in Texas will reopen
3 weeks ago

Privately run immigration detention center that previously held families in Texas will reopen

Hindustan Times  

A private prison company has signed an agreement to reopen an immigrant detention facility in Texas that previously held families with children for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the business said Wednesday. Privately run immigration detention center that previously held families in Texas will reopen Nashville-based CoreCivic announced the contract with ICE and the city of Dilley regarding the 2,400-bed …

Hundreds of women and children are released from Texas immigration detention facilities
8 years, 3 months ago

Hundreds of women and children are released from Texas immigration detention facilities

LA Times  

The South Texas Family Residential Center is the largest of the nation’s three immigration detention centers for families. More than 400 women and children have been freed from two Texas immigration detention facilities after a federal judge found the sites unsuitable for holding children, sending families into a wet, frigid December night while migrant advocates scrambled to provide shelter, food …

Commission urges end to US detention of immigrant families
9 years, 6 months ago

Commission urges end to US detention of immigrant families

India TV News  

Washington: The US Commission on Civil Rights urged the Barack Obama administration to "immediately" end the detention of undocumented families and minors. The commission called on the DHS -- in charge of the immigrant detention centres managed by the office of Immigrations and Customs Enforcement -- to "act immediately to release families from detention". The commission's recommendations, sent in a …

Some Hunger-Striking Mothers Were Put In Isolation At Karnes Immigrant Detention Center, Lawyers Say
9 years, 11 months ago

Some Hunger-Striking Mothers Were Put In Isolation At Karnes Immigrant Detention Center, Lawyers Say

Huff Post  

A view of the open air rec yard at the Karnes County Civil Detention Center on September 9th, 2013 in Karnes County, Texas. Authorities at Karnes Detention Center in Texas have responded to a hunger strike launched by a group of 78 mothers this week by placing some women in isolation with their children, according to lawyers and advocates working …

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