The Trump administration began detaining immigrant families at a Texas facility and is preparing an additional facility in South Texas to detain undocumented parents and their children.
Background
The Biden administration stopped the practice of family detention, but family detention was used during the first Trump administration and Obama administration.
What they’re saying:
- The Trump administration said they will detain recently arrived migrant families at the facilities and will also detain families apprehended in the interior.
- Many human rights organizations and religious groups have called family detention inhumane and ineffective, and there is a history of litigation over due process violations, sexual abuse, immigration, and insufficient medical care at the facilities.
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