ICE Locking up More Parents and Children at for-Profit Detention Center in Texas
Lawmakers said 112 children were held at the facility as they renewed pressure on the Department of Homeland Security to end family detention.
- On Tuesday, U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro led a congressional delegation to the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in South Texas, where the facility holds 539 people, including 112 children.
- Castro attributes the rising detainee population to intensified Immigration and Customs Enforcement surges over the past month, reversing a downward trend seen earlier this year.
- Democratic lawmakers highlighted the psychological toll on families and children as young as 2 months old, who remain detained while awaiting deportation proceedings.
- Earlier this month, 111 House Democrats signed a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin demanding the government end family detention, stating there is "no humane way to imprison a child."
- Both the Department of Homeland Security and CoreCivic maintain the facility meets national detention standards and dispute allegations of mistreatment.
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ICE locking up more parents and children at for-profit detention center in Texas
An increasing number of parents and children are being held at the nations only immigration detention center specially designed to hold families. It is a reversal of a downward trend in population earlier this year.Democratic members of Congress shared the latest numbers on Tuesday after a brief oversight visit to the privately run Dilley Immigration Processing Center located south of San Antonio, Texas.ICE is holding 539 people now at Dilley, a…
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