…attempting to negotiate an agreement relating to the treatment of children in family detention centers – but government attorneys may be arguing that applying the settlement to family detention centers…
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…Grande Legal Aid, Inc. (TRLA) from the controversial South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas. Her banishment stemmed from what ICE called an inappropriately facilitated mental health evaluation by…
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…U.S. detention population when alternatives to detention have proven effective. These alternatives cost about $4 per day per person, compared to $139 for adult detention, and $319 for family detention….
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Faith leaders from around the country visited the Dilley family detention center in Texas just days before mothers in the Karnes detention facility, another Texas family detention center located less…
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In 2009, the Obama Administration ended family detention at the infamous T. Don Hutto jail in Texas and cut the number of immigrants in family detention to less than a…
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…the risk of a similar result. The agency is now forcing parents at its family detention centers to choose between separation from their children or the family’s indefinite detention. In…
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…Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Jeh Johnson announced reforms to the family detention program, the continued detention of these five families, among others, until September was confusing and unwarranted. The incomprehensibility…
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…administration, which greatly expanded family detention centers to have a combined bed space for almost 3,500 parents and children. These family detention camps operate even though they likely violate the…
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…that the government’s family detention centers violate the long-standing Flores v. Reno settlement agreement, which set minimum standards for the detention, release and treatment of children subject to immigration detention….
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…young as 13 to work in the detention center, and prolonged detention. While the detention center’s license to operate was temporarily revoked in 2014, it remained a family detention center…
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