Immigration agency expands family detention facilities
The San Antonio Express reported that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) recently extended the contract at the South Texas Family Residential Camp in Dilley, Texas until 2021.The detention...
View ArticleHomeland Security advisory committee recommends end to family detention
The Department of Homeland (DHS) Security's Advisory Committee on Family Detention has recommended that DHS end its policy of detaining children and their families, reports Human Rights First. The...
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Judge issues final judgement preventing licensing of Texas family detention...
According to a press release from Grassroots Leadership, an Austin judge has issued a final judgement on a lawsuit by immigrant families to stop the licensing of family detention facilities in...
View ArticleTexas Attorney General appeals licensing case
On Monday the Texas attorney general appealed a judge's ruling that prevents two federal family detention centers in South Texas from being licensed as child care facilities, reports ABC News.As we...
View Article500 immigrant women and children released from detention
The Huffington Post writes that nearly 500 immigrant women and children were released from two Texas family detention centers this past weekend.Women and children from both the South Texas Family...
View ArticleCounty Judge says family detention center is still an option
The application for a family detention center in San Diego is still pending, despite a court ruling against the state licensing family detention centers as child care facilities, reported Caller-Times...
View ArticleImmigration quietly increasing number of migrant families detained
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has quietly been increasing the number of migrant families in their detention facilities in South Texas, reports The Monitor.The number of migrants who are...
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Proposed legislation would provide state license to immigrant family...
Karnes County Detention CenterState lawmakers in Austin have proposed a bill that would allow the state of Texas to license two family detention centers near San Antonio as childcare facilities,...
View ArticleFamily detention centers are mostly empty — so why license them?
According to KUT, the two family detention centers in South Texas are mostly empty, leaving immigration judges who had been relocated to the centers with nothing to do.Due to a low number of people...
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A mother locked up in family detention attempts suicide in bid to have...
A mother detained in a family detention center attempted suicide, reports the Huffington Post.Samira Hakimi of Afghanistan has been detained at both the Dilley family detention center and the Karnes...
View ArticleTexas family detention centers violate federal law by holding families for...
Family detention centers in Texas are violating federal law for holding minors in detention, reports the Associated Press. Some families have been detained in detention centers for more than six...
View ArticleFamily detention centers receive good reports—what did they miss?
Two South Texas family detention centers have received good marks from the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Inspector General, reports the San Antonio Express. The report was done in response to...
View ArticleICE interfering with medical evaluations
A lawsuit has been filed against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on behalf of immigrants detained at the Dilley family detention center, reports the San Antonio Express. The lawsuit stated...
View ArticleSettlement reached with ICE over medical evaluations
A settlement has been reached between immigration officials and pro bono attorneys regarding medical evaluations at the Dilley family detention center, Texas, reports the San Antonio Express. The...
View ArticleAs Hurricane Harvey approaches, ICE abandons over 50 women & children at a...
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) abandoned about 50 immigrant women and children at a bus station in San Antonio, reports the Rivard Report. The 50 women and children were all Central...
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