‘I’m Not Giving up so Easily’: After 4 Months in Detention, an Asylum Fight Begins
Families say children have been held for months, with federal data showing at least 60 minors stayed 100 days or more.
- Children remain held at the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas, well beyond the 20-day limit mandated by the Flores settlement, according to legal advocates challenging the prolonged confinement.
- The Trump administration reopened the Dilley facility last year as the country's only detention center for families, operated by CoreCivic to centralize mass deportation efforts.
- Federal data shows at least 60 children have been detained for 100 days or more, far exceeding the 20-day Flores limit, while average stays peak at 47 days.
- U.S. District Judge Dolly M. Gee, who oversees the Flores settlement, stated in June she plans to appoint a monitor to force administration compliance with the agreement.
- CoreCivic spokesperson Ryan Gustin defended facility practices, citing regular sanitation and testing; attorneys representing detained children called the company's compliance report 'a fiction of compliance.
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‘I’m not giving up so easily’: After 4 months in detention, an asylum fight beginsAndrea Pedro-Francisco feels like part of her is still trapped in a nightmare — back in the crowded, windowless cell block of the Texas detention center she left weeks ago.“My mind is halfway here, thinking ‘Yes, I’m back,’ but the other half feels like I’m still there,” said Pedro-Francisco, a migrant from Guatemala who was among thousands of people detained durin…
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