He squeezed her every time he saw a police officer. He got scared when people he didn’t know talked to him. Teachers told her he played violently at school, making dolls fight and pretending to be an officer placing othe ...
Tag Archives: Family Detention
Unrest reported at immigration detention center in Texas
The Justice Department says the incident happened Wednesday at the Karnes County Family Resident Center. The agency did not say what caused the unrest. ...
Texas lockup is epicenter of family immigration detention
It’s a scene that could play out in elementary school cafeterias nationwide as youngsters prepare to head back to class. But inside the Dilley immigration lockup, it’s a glimpse of the epicenter of family immigration det ...
Whistle-Blowers Say Detaining Migrant Families ‘Poses High Risk of Harm’
A series of 10 investigations over the past four years, conducted during both the Obama and Trump administrations, “frequently revealed serious compliance issues resulting in harm to children,” the two physicians, Scott ...
Judge rejects request to detain migrant families long-term
U.S. District Judge Dolly Gee said the federal government had failed to present new evidence to support revising a court order that limits detaining children who crossed the border illegally for extended periods. ...
The big problem with the term “catch and release”
Over the past few months, as President Donald Trump’s administration works to dismantle protections for asylum-seeking immigrants, the use of the term “catch and release” — a dehumanizing phrase that describes U.S. polic ...
It’s official: the Trump administration has replaced family separation with indefinite family detention
The Trump administration is keeping families together. In immigration detention. Indefinitely. ...
Trump administration tells judge it has authority to keep immigrant families in long-term detention
In papers filed Friday evening, the Justice Department told U.S. District Judge Dolly Gee in Los Angeles that they believe a decades-old court case that she has supervised gives them the authority to carry out the detent ...
Trump’s Family Detention Policy Will Cost Billions Of Dollars That ICE Doesn’t Have
But the vision taking shape is sure to cost billions of dollars that Immigration and Customs Enforcement doesn’t have. ...
The real story behind Trump’s immigration executive order
But in reality, the order simply furthers the Trump administration's anti-immigrant policies by continuing to conflate immigration issues with criminal ones. ...
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