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The surge in border crossings in 2014 and the Obama administration's response, including the expansion of family detention facilities.
reopened and expanded family detention facilities in in 2014 chiefly as an operational response to a sudden surge of asylum-seeking families from that overwhelmed border processing and shelter capacit...
The Obama administration inherited and expanded a sprawling immigration detention system while promising reforms that largely failed to materialize: bed quotas and contracting with private facilities ...
and other operations did include actions that detained or affected children, including family and the re‑establishment of that held mothers and children; the record is complex because the administrati...
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...
Images and rhetoric invoking “Obama’s cages for children” compress a complex record: the did expand and operate large beginning in and housed thousands of asylum-seeking children with their parents in...
did expand and use — opening or operating facilities such as , and in response to a — and it sometimes separated children from adults for limited reasons like suspected trafficking, security risks, or...