U.S. may phase out family detention at Texas facility, limiting capacity as parents and children cross border in record numbers
Detained immigrant children line up in the cafeteria at the Karnes County Residential Center in Karnes City, Tex., in this file photo from 2014. U.S. officials are discussing a plan to phase out family detention at the facility. U.S.
ICE also operates the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Tex., with a current detainee population of 1,456, as well as a much-smaller facility in Berks County, Pa., which had 12 detainees in custody on Thursday, according to ICE data. Because U.S. federal courts have limited the amount of time children can be held in immigration jails to 20 days, the families often are released into the U.S. interior anyway, sometimes with a GPS ankle monitoring bracelet allowing ICE to track their whereabouts.“Ensuring there are sufficient beds available to meet the current demand for detention space is crucial to the success of ICE’s overall mission,” Bennett said in a statement.
Families make up a small fraction of the more than 40,000 immigrants held daily in county jails, private prisons and detention facilities across the United States. Last year, a top ICE official compared the family residential centers to “summer camp,” triggering a backlash from Democratic lawmakers. Single adults also are significantly easier for ICE to remove from the United States, so by increasing its ability to detain them, the agency can also meet the Trump administration’s goal of increased deportations.On Wednesday, the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services, a Texas-based nonprofit, sent a complaint to both the Department of Homeland Security’s Inspector General and the Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties on behalf of several Karnes detainees.
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