…in Karnes and Dilley, Texas, and plans to expand its detention facility in Berks County, Pennsylvania—together, a planned expansion from less than 100 family immigration detention beds to almost 4,000…
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…border security strategy is an important first step towards ending the unconscionable practice of family detention. As the court explained, the government’s new family detention policy was rooted in a…
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…its license. [wc_box color=”primary” text_align=”left”] Related Content: Family Detention Resource Page [/wc_box] Texas officials have moved in the opposite direction. Last year, the federal government opened two new privately-run family…
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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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…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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…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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…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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…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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…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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…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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