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The surge of Central American families at the border in 2014, which led to an 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 ...
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...