CDF-Texas, Partners Respond as Trump Administration Reopens Child and Family Detention Centers in Texas

CDF-Texas, Partners Respond as Trump Administration Reopens Child and Family Detention Centers in Texas

‘Jailing children, including babies, is unconscionable,’ says CDF-Texas, as federal officials reopen two detention facilities in Texas to jail immigrant families arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.   AUSTIN, TX—Children’s Defense Fund-Texas (CDF-Texas) and its youth and immigrant advocacy partners warn that President Donald Trump’s decision to reopen detention facilities in Texas to jail immigrant families could create an array…

Immigrants' rights advocates denounce Trump plans to bring back family detention

Immigrants' rights advocates have denounced the Trump administration's move to reopen an immigrant detention center in Texas formerly used to detain children.

Trump attempting to revive horrible practice of detaining migrant, immigrant families

By Mel Wilson, NASW Senior Policy Adviser The Trump Administration on March 5 announced it is bringing back the already discredited policy of detaining immigrant and migrant families together at the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas. The plan is to detain up to 2,400 families in Dilley. The decision is both alarming and horrible. It represents a return of one of the nation’s immigration policies which – at times – bordered on