Trump revives practice of detaining migrant families with children
Houston, Texas – The Trump administration is resuming controversial practices to detain immigrant families with children in immigration and customs enforcement, the latest front in its efforts Deportation work The president promises to be the largest in American history.
ICE will detain the first group of immigrant parents and children in a Texas detention facility on Thursday aimed at keeping families in contact with minors, according to an internal report from CBS News. The report shows that the group includes three children.
Department of Homeland Security spokesman Tricia McLaughlin said the immigration has deportation orders and confirmed that the Trump administration is remodeling two Texas immigration detention centers to allow illegal families in the United States to be held.
“We won’t ignore the rule of law,” McLaughlin told CBS News.
The Karns Detention Center is located in Karns, Texas, in a small town east of San Antonio. Another ice detention center for families with minor children is located in Deeley, Texas, another small town south of San Antonio. The Biden Administration used these locations to detain immigrant adults.
The Trump administration’s move reverses policy changes in the Biden administration, which has stopped long-term detentions of immigrant families. This is a practice originally implemented on a large scale by the Obama administration, trying to prevent families from illegally crossing the southern border.
Advocates and child welfare experts have long condemned family detention, saying it is harmful to children and their mental health. one 2016 report commissioned The Department of Homeland Security calls for the phase-out of family immigration detention.
“There is no safe way to detain families, and there is no legal reason,” said Neha Desai, an attorney based in California’s National Youth Law.
The U.S. government has long faced legal, humanitarian and operational challenges when dealing with immigrant parents and children without legal permission. For example, in 2015, a federal judge ruled that the government should not normally possess immigrant children within 20 days, which greatly restricted family detention in the context of immigration.
The revival of family detention is the latest step in the Trump administration’s ability to expand ICE arrests, detain and deport illegal immigrants.
Officials on the ice Under great pressure Higher Trump administration officials stepped up arrests and deportations.
Unlike efforts to block the U.S.-Mexico border, yield The Trump administration’s immigration law enforcement campaign within the country is at a 25-year level of illegal crossing, which has encountered operational obstacles.
For example, ICE’s detention capacity has been exhausted. Internal government statistics show that as of Thursday, the agency’s detention system had a capacity of 120%, holding more than 46,000 immigrants, despite only 38,000 beds on paper.
