…too worried to eat properly.” The American Immigration Council’s Family Detention Fellow, Lindsay Harris, who visited families in detention, wrote in her declaration: “A five-year-old boy transferred from Karnes to…
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…open giant family detention centers in rural Texas. This response has a clear intent—family detention is being used as a border security measure intended to deter others from making the…
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…have to be converted to adult detention facilities. Meanwhile, the detention centers in Dilley and Karnes City, Texas—two of the country’s three family detention centers which can hold up to…
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…detention system. This unacceptable culture of abuse persists, and reports of sexual assault and rape have surfaced in other family detention centers. In 2014, numerous reports of sexual assault and…
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…end all forms of family separation and will ramp up family detention, an insidious alternative. By Thursday, much has remained unclear about how the order will be implemented. The Department…
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…begin laying the groundwork to end mass immigration detention in the United States. And family detention must end immediately. Increased oversight, accountability, and small-scale reforms have been inadequate in addressing…
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…systemic problems in privately – and government – operated immigrant detention facilities. Yet family detention is one part of a larger industry using taxpayer dollars to lock up immigrants. A…
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…labeling family prisons as childcare facilities. Family detention camps are prisons. They are not childcare facilities. DFPS has for a decade refused to regulate these facilities because they do not…
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…obscure process of negotiating higher per diem rates. The mounting evidence of the shameful conditions in immigration detention facilities, especially family detention centers, raise further questions about the conditions outlined…
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…and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facilities—current hotspots of the coronavirus pandemic. In a reversal of previous budget requests, this budget proposes a major decrease in funds for detention and other…
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