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Reports from multiple outlets in 2025 document children in ICE custody facing shortages of clean drinking water, delayed or denied medical care, poor hygiene, overcrowding and prolonged stays beyond e...
Since 2020 civil rights allegations against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) cluster around , , , and ; reporting spans investigative journalism, NGO reports, and local watchdogs from 20...
Available reporting in the provided sources does not give a specific tally of how many children detained in family detention centers were released or reunified while President Trump was in office; sou...
The Obama administration governed immigrant child detention primarily through a policy mix that expanded family detention capacity, relied on existing legal settlements that limited how long unaccompa...
After H.R.1’s passage ICE overwhelmingly expanded bed capacity not by running long competitive procurements but by leaning on contract modifications, guaranteed‑minimum “bed quota” provisions, expedit...
During the Obama administration the expansion of family detention in 2014–2016 prompted a cascade of legal challenges, court rulings that curtailed aspects of the policy, and sustained congressional p...
The Obama administration significantly expanded family detention beginning in mid‑2014, opening large family residential centers and increasing use of detention for recently arrived Central American m...
The Obama administration reintroduced large-scale family detention in 2014 after earlier moves to reduce it, opening multiple family residential centers (notably Dilley and Karnes) and detaining thous...
ICE officials acknowledge agents mistakenly identified Fernando Jaramillo‑Solano before stopping him and his two children in Durango, Colo., but agents proceeded to arrest and detain the family; advoc...
The core claim is that migrant children detained in U.S. facilities experienced —including cloudy or scarce drinking water, chronic sleep deprivation, delayed medical care, and prolonged detention—bas...