Trump administration resumes detention of immigrant families after Biden-era pause
1 week, 1 day 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, according to RAICES, which provides services to families at the center. Last week, CoreCivic, a company that operates detention centers, announced it entered into a contract with ICE to hold immigrant families at the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas, with a capacity of 2,400 people. Shapiro visited family detention centers under the first Trump administration and said detained children experienced behavioral regression, anger and thoughts of self-harm.

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President Trump brings back practice of detaining families together
2 weeks ago

President Trump brings back practice of detaining families together

NPR  

President Trump brings back practice of detaining families together toggle caption Veronica G. Cardenas/POOL/AFP via Getty Images The Trump administration has brought back the practice of detaining families with children as a part of an effort to crack down on immigration. During the Trump administration's first term, children of migrants were separated from their parents and held in detention centers …

Privately run immigration detention center that previously held families in Texas will reopen
2 weeks, 1 day 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 …

Legal aid groups for immigrants can resume work in detention centers after DOJ backs down
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Legal aid groups for immigrants can resume work in detention centers after DOJ backs down

LA Times  

A guard sits in the segregation block at the Adelanto Detention Facility in Adelanto, Calif., in 2013. Legal aid groups say the Trump administration will allow them back in immigration courts and detention centers, for now. The move came two days after nine nonprofits that provide legal aid for detainees and about 200 children in deportation proceedings filed a lawsuit …

Migrants at Texas border in shock after Trump canceled their asylum appointments
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Migrants at Texas border in shock after Trump canceled their asylum appointments

Raw Story  

"Migrants at Texas border in shock after Trump canceled their asylum appointments" was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues. “We were so happy, we thought we were finally going to be able to enter the U.S.,” said José …

Trump 'Border Czar' Suggests Halfway Homes For U.S.-Born Kids With Undocumented Parents
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Trump 'Border Czar' Suggests Halfway Homes For U.S.-Born Kids With Undocumented Parents

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming “border czar” suggested that children who are U.S. citizens but whose parents are undocumented could be placed in a “halfway house” as part of mass deportation efforts. “As far as U.S. children, that’s going to be a difficult situation, because we’re not going to detain U.S. citizen children, which means, you know, they’re …

Despite efforts of 3 U.S. administrations, migrant families keep crossing the border
1 year, 5 months ago

Despite efforts of 3 U.S. administrations, migrant families keep crossing the border

NPR  

Despite efforts of 3 U.S. administrations, migrant families keep crossing the border In the the Rio Grande Valley in South Texas, the families keep coming. "We have not seen any policy reduce arrivals in the long run," said Theresa Cardinal Brown is a former Homeland Security official who's now with the Bipartisan Policy Center in Washington. It's focusing instead on …

Abbott criticizes Biden over Times report that some migrants may be forced to stay in Texas
1 year, 6 months ago

Abbott criticizes Biden over Times report that some migrants may be forced to stay in Texas

LA Times  

Greg Abbott slammed President Biden on Thursday over a Times report that Washington is considering forcing some migrant families to remain in Texas while they await asylum processing. “We will send Biden the same swift justice.” The Republican governor, a fierce critic of the Democratic president’s border policies, has bused thousands of asylum seekers to Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and …

Biden administration considers forcing migrant families to remain in Texas
1 year, 6 months ago

Biden administration considers forcing migrant families to remain in Texas

LA Times  

Migrants navigate around concertina wire along the banks of the Rio Grande after crossing from Mexico into the U.S. on Aug. 1 in Eagle Pass, Texas. The Biden administration is considering forcing some migrant families who enter the country without authorization to remain near the border in Texas while awaiting asylum screening, effectively limiting their ability to travel within the …

Top Democrats warn Biden: Don’t restart family detentions
1 year, 11 months ago

Top Democrats warn Biden: Don’t restart family detentions

LA Times  

Samuel Quinoz, 27, recently arrived in Tijuana from Oaxaca, Mexico, and is hoping to get his child and partner to the United States. Top Democrats are warning President Biden against restarting the controversial practice of detaining migrant families who cross the U.S. southern border without authorization. But the internal debate — and Biden’s decision, in February, to dramatically curtail access …

In reversal, Biden weighs detaining migrant families
2 years ago

In reversal, Biden weighs detaining migrant families

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is considering detaining migrant families who cross into the U.S. illegally as it prepares to end COVID-19 restrictions at the U.S.-Mexico border, according to U.S. officials familiar with the plans. Last month, the administration said it would generally deny asylum to migrants who show up at the U.S. southern border without first seeking protection in …

Biden admin defends response to increase in migrant arrivals
4 years ago

Biden admin defends response to increase in migrant arrivals

Al Jazeera  

Biden administration is under pressure to respond to large number of unaccompanied migrant children seeking asylum. “So we are rebuilding the system as we address the needs of vulnerable children who arrive at our borders.” In a separate interview with CNN on Sunday, Mayorkas said the US plans to open new facilities to house the unaccompanied minors who have crossed …

Texas Gov. Abbott says Biden's migrant crisis is now a humanitarian disaster
4 years ago

Texas Gov. Abbott says Biden's migrant crisis is now a humanitarian disaster

Daily Mail  

Texas Governor Greg Abbott has called the border crisis a 'humanitarian disaster' as COVID cases surge among teens held in a hastily constructed federal holding facility for child migrants with no drinkable water. Unaccompanied minors and adults with children are allowed to remain in the US Texas Governor Greg Abbott has called the border crisis a 'humanitarian disaster' as COVID …

Immigrant Children Packed Into Texas Border Patrol Tent For Days
4 years ago

Immigrant Children Packed Into Texas Border Patrol Tent For Days

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING HOUSTON — Hundreds of immigrant children and teenagers have been detained at a Border Patrol tent facility in packed conditions, with some sleeping on the floor because there aren’t enough mats, according to nonprofit lawyers who conduct oversight of immigrant detention centers. During the administration of former President Donald Trump, attorney visits to Border Patrol stations revealed …

AOC slams Joe Biden's administration for reopening Texas migrant facility for children
4 years ago

AOC slams Joe Biden's administration for reopening Texas migrant facility for children

Daily Mail  

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez blasted the Biden administration Tuesday for reopening a temporary influx center for unaccompanied minors in Carrizo Springs, Texas and a shelter in Miami, Florida, where now-Vice President Kamala Harris protested outside of in June 2019. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez slammed the Biden administration for reopening a temporary migrant facility in Texas that will house kids who crossed the …

In Biden’s early days, signs of Trump-era problems at border
4 years, 1 month ago

In Biden’s early days, signs of Trump-era problems at border

Associated Press  

HOUSTON — The day after she gave birth in a Texas border hospital, Nailet and her newborn son were taken by federal agents to a holding facility that immigrants often refer to as the “icebox.” Inside, large cells were packed with women and their young children. Warning signs are emerging of the border crises that marked former President Donald Trump’s …

Long-detained immigrant families in US could soon face deportation
4 years, 1 month ago

Long-detained immigrant families in US could soon face deportation

Hindustan Times  

Lawyers working with immigrant families detained by the US government for more than a year say they’re worried the families could be deported as soon as this week. The families facing deportation have been held at the family detention center at Dilley, Texas, created by the former administration of President Barack Obama, under whom Biden served as vice president. In …

US temporarily closes detention facility at Texas border
4 years, 3 months ago

US temporarily closes detention facility at Texas border

Associated Press  

HOUSTON — The U.S. Border Patrol is temporarily closing a converted warehouse used to detain immigrants in South Texas for renovation. Opened in 2014 during the administration of President Barack Obama, the facility was first used to hold immigrant children mostly from Central America who were crossing the U.S.-Mexico border alone. The Trump administration used the facility to hold parents …

Judge: US must free migrant children from family detention
4 years, 8 months ago

Judge: US must free migrant children from family detention

India Today  

A federal judge on Friday ordered the release of children held with their parents in US immigration jails and denounced the Trump administration's prolonged detention of families during the coronavirus pandemic. US District Judge Dolly Gee's order applies to children held for more than 20 days at three family detention centers in Texas and Pennsylvania operated by US Immigration and …

Trump Wants To Detain Migrant Families Indefinitely. He Can't.
5 years, 6 months ago

Trump Wants To Detain Migrant Families Indefinitely. He Can't.

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING The White House dramatically escalated its campaign to scare Central American families away from crossing the U.S. border on Wednesday, as officials announced plans to cancel the 1997 Flores settlement. If those numbers hold as the Trump administration’s new family detention policy goes into effect, ICE will fill its family detention to capacity in about three days. …

Trump Administration Announces Plan To Detain Migrant Children For Longer
5 years, 7 months ago

Trump Administration Announces Plan To Detain Migrant Children For Longer

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING The Trump administration on Wednesday announced new rules that would allow immigration officials to detain migrant children for a longer period of time, ripping up a long-standing set of protections that prevent migrant children from being detained for more than 20 days. McAleenan called the Flores settlement a “key gap in our immigration framework,” arguing that the …

Trump administration moves to end limits on child detention
5 years, 7 months ago

Trump administration moves to end limits on child detention

Al Jazeera  

The Trump administration on Wednesday unveiled new rules that would allow officials to detain migrant families indefinitely while judges consider whether to grant them asylum in the United States. Administration officials blame the so-called “Flores Settlement Agreement” for a spike in immigration, especially of Central American families, saying it encourages migrants to bring children with them so they can be …

US migrant detention centres are overcrowded and families are still being separated
5 years, 7 months ago

US migrant detention centres are overcrowded and families are still being separated

ABC  

It has fake grass, a pop-up medical clinic and a soccer pitch. "We do not look at it as a detention centre," said operations section chief Philip Gill from emergency management non-profit BCFS, which runs the centre for the US Office of Refugee Resettlement. He has said that "much can be learned" from Australia's immigration policies, which place asylum seekers …

'Chaos and confusion’ at US detention centres as Trump administration rushes to reunite migrant families
6 years, 7 months ago

'Chaos and confusion’ at US detention centres as Trump administration rushes to reunite migrant families

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy US lawyers and activists have described “chaos and confusion” at …

Latest: US official: Fort Bliss to house detained families
6 years, 8 months ago

Latest: US official: Fort Bliss to house detained families

Associated Press  

EL PASO, Texas — The Latest on the separation of immigrant children from their parents : 10 p.m. A federal official says the U.S. Army post Fort Bliss in El Paso will house families detained after crossing the U.S.-Mexico border illegally. Andrew Cuomo says Monday that state agencies can send public services providers to government-contracted foster care agencies that request …

Donald Trump’s family separation: The government had no intention of reuniting parents and children.
6 years, 8 months ago

Donald Trump’s family separation: The government had no intention of reuniting parents and children.

Slate  

Once there was a policy that wasn’t really a policy. Again, the government lawyer was clear: “While that individual remains in custody, they are not going be a suitable custodian, nor is there ability to detain them together because they are then in ICE custody.” Under this analysis, children are being removed because the Justice Department believes presumptively that everyone …

Immigration Crisis: Officials says hundreds of kids reunited with families since May
6 years, 8 months ago

Immigration Crisis: Officials says hundreds of kids reunited with families since May

India TV News  

About 500 of the more than 2,300 children separated from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border have been reunited since May, a senior Trump administration official said Thursday, as confusion mounted over the “zero tolerance” policy that called for the prosecution of anyone caught entering the United States illegally. The federal public defender’s office for the region that covers cases …

DOJ Takes First Steps Toward Indefinite Detention Of Families
6 years, 8 months ago

DOJ Takes First Steps Toward Indefinite Detention Of Families

Huff Post  

Attorney General Jeff Sessions has been critical of a court settlement that limits the ability of the government to indefinitely detain immigrant families. “It cannot be done.” In addition to ending limits on the length of time kids can be locked up, the Trump administration is asking the court to make family detention centers exempt from state licensure requirements for …

Donald Trump ends separation of immigrant families. But the fate of 2,300 children is unclear
6 years, 9 months ago

Donald Trump ends separation of immigrant families. But the fate of 2,300 children is unclear

ABC  

Since May more than 2,300 children have been separated from their parents as part of the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" policy on illegal crossings at the US-Mexico border, according to US Customs and Border Protection. The executive order doesn't appear to change anything for the estimated 2,300 children taken from their families since the original policy was put into place. …

US border 'detention centres' added to Wikipedia's list of concentration camps, sets off debate
6 years, 9 months ago

US border 'detention centres' added to Wikipedia's list of concentration camps, sets off debate

Firstpost  

As part of the 2018 Trump administration’s family separation policy, nearly 2,000 minors were separated from their parents while trying to illegally cross the US-Mexico border and placed in detention centers. While US president Donald Trump remained defiantly unapologetic about his administration’s border-protection policies in the face of rising national outrage over the forced separation of migrant children from their …

What We Know: Family Separation And 'Zero Tolerance' At The Border
6 years, 9 months ago

What We Know: Family Separation And 'Zero Tolerance' At The Border

NPR  

What We Know: Family Separation And 'Zero Tolerance' At The Border Enlarge this image toggle caption U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Rio Grande Valley Sector via AP U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Rio Grande Valley Sector via AP Updated at 4:40 a.m. Trump also calls for branches of his administration to make facilities available for detaining families with children — …

Sens. Jeff Merkley, Chris Van Hollen visiting Texas immigration centers
6 years, 9 months ago

Sens. Jeff Merkley, Chris Van Hollen visiting Texas immigration centers

CNN  

McAllen, Texas CNN — Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley returned to the South Texas border on Sunday with a group of Democratic colleagues to tour the Customs and Border Protection processing centers in the Rio Grande Valley. The senators requested that the departments explain how and why family separations are occurring, if there are procedures in place to keep parents informed …

Trump's Department Of Homeland Security Is Cruelly Separating Asylum-Seeking Families
6 years, 11 months ago

Trump's Department Of Homeland Security Is Cruelly Separating Asylum-Seeking Families

Huff Post  

Ms. L was sent to the Otay Mesa Detention Center after requesting asylum. Now, the Trump administration has put into practice a 2017 Department of Homeland Security proposal to forcibly separate asylum-seeking families once they reach the U.S. An ACLU class action suit asserts that at least 429 cases of family separation have occurred in the past 15 or so …

Trump administration considering separating women, children at Mexico border
8 years ago

Trump administration considering separating women, children at Mexico border

Live Mint  

Washington: Women and children crossing together illegally into the United States could be separated by US authorities under a proposal being considered by the Department of Homeland Security, according to three government officials. Children would be put into protective custody with the Department of Health and Human Services, in the “least restrictive setting” until they can be taken into the …

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 …

Central American Families Fear Deportation As Raids Begin
9 years, 2 months ago

Central American Families Fear Deportation As Raids Begin

NPR  

Central American Families Fear Deportation As Raids Begin Enlarge this image toggle caption John Burnett/NPR John Burnett/NPR Federal immigration agents have initiated a controversial roundup of Central American families who were part of the border surge that began in 2014. Around the Nation U.S. Raids Target Undocumented Immigrants U.S. Raids Target Undocumented Immigrants Listen · 3:39 3:39 They are mainly …

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 …

Detained immigrant mothers and children trapped in legal limbo
9 years, 7 months ago

Detained immigrant mothers and children trapped in legal limbo

LA Times  

Salvadoran and Guatemalan immigrants who entered the U.S. illegally board a bus after being released from a family detention center in San Antonio. The administration’s latest response came after U.S. District Judge Dolly Gee in Los Angeles in late July in effect ordered the release of all children from family detention centers, as well as mothers not deemed flight or …

After Court Ruling, 3 Immigration Detention Centers Could Close
9 years, 7 months ago

After Court Ruling, 3 Immigration Detention Centers Could Close

NPR  

After Court Ruling, 3 Immigration Detention Centers Could Close Thousands of Central American families claiming asylum in the U.S. have been detained. A federal district court judge ruled that 3 facilities that hold these families aren't meeting legal standards. STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: The United States government has been using special detention centers to hold thousands of undocumented women and children. …

Immigrant families in detention: A look inside one holding center
9 years, 8 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: …

Obama Administration Acts To Ease Family Detentions
9 years, 8 months ago

Obama Administration Acts To Ease Family Detentions

NPR  

Obama Administration Acts To Ease Family Detentions The Department of Homeland Security says it is changing its family detention policies, but critics say the steps don't go far enough. The government says nearly 70,000 "family units" were detained after crossing into the U.S. along the Southwest border during fiscal year 2014, a 361 percent increase from the previous year. According …

Obama Immigrant Detention Policies Under Fire
9 years, 9 months ago

Obama Immigrant Detention Policies Under Fire

NPR  

Obama Immigrant Detention Policies Under Fire Enlarge this image toggle caption Eric Gay/AP Eric Gay/AP The Obama administration is under growing pressure to change its policies governing the detention of thousands of migrants who came to the United States illegally. Sponsor Message --The Center for Constitutional Rights and Detention Watch Network published a report calling for the end to so-called …

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 …

Facility Allows U.S. to Detain Immigrant Families
18 years, 1 month ago

Facility Allows U.S. to Detain Immigrant Families

NPR  

Facility Allows U.S. to Detain Immigrant Families A change in immigration policy now allows families who are in the U.S. illegally to be detained. Last summer, Immigration and Customs Enforcement began holding entire families, including small children, at a converted prison outside of Austin, Texas. Officials say that before the facility opened, illegal immigrants with children were often released with …

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