A Texas judge issued a final judgment last Friday prohibiting the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) from issuing a childcare license to the nation’s largest family detention…
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…unaccompanied and accompanied minors. The Court also found that neither Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) detention and release policies at existing family detention centers nor the ICE Family Residential Detention…
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Earlier this week, eight Democratic House Members took a trip to Dilley and Karnes, Texas to visit two immigrant family detention facilities and meet with women and children detained there….
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…American mothers held in family detention facilities; a similar one took place last year at the Dilley Family Detention Center. These mothers along with their children have come to the…
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…minimum standards for the detention, release, and treatment of children in immigration detention. These standards, the court concluded, are not being met. The judge’s order came after settlement negotiations between…
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…deportation. But this appeal happens just a few days later. The CARA Family Detention Pro Bono Project has taken on the Herculean task of trying to meet with as many…
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The inhumanity of family detention and the danger of short-changing basic due process protections are on full display in the detention center in Artesia, New Mexico, where hundreds of women…
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When the family detention center in Artesia, New Mexico, was hastily propped up by the U.S. government in order to detain and rapidly process women and children for deportation, immigration…
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On Friday, a Texas State Court Judge granted a temporary restraining order in Grassroots Leadership v. hs (TFPS) prohibiting TFPS from issuing licenses to family detention facilities in Dilley and…
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…in pursuing their asylum claims. “Detaining Families: A Study of Asylum Adjudication in Family Detention” is the first empirical study of family detention and the U.S. immigration court process. The…
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