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The expansion of family detention facilities during the Obama administration
The statement " c’est 56 morts sous la responsabilité de l’" is supported by a major NGO report that counted 56 deaths in ICE custody during the Obama administration, but official tallies and other re...
Photographs from 2014 show children behind chain‑link fencing at U.S. border processing sites during the , and officials at the time described chain‑link partitions or fenced enclosures used to hold m...
’s administrations detained large numbers of migrant families and expanded family-detention capacity beginning in 2014, resulting in mothers and children being held together in institutional facilitie...
The claim that “ created the first detention centers for children in ” is inaccurate: detention of immigrant children and families predates the Obama presidency, but the Obama administration significa...
Official government records do not produce a neat, directly comparable tally of children “detained or separated” under Presidents Obama and Trump; independent fact-checkers and agency reports conclude...
launched a series of detention-reform initiatives beginning in 2009 that centralized oversight inside , created new inspection and death‑review processes, and established to inspect facilities and inv...
’s April 2018 “” policy shifted enforcement tactics by mandating criminal prosecution of all misdemeanor illegal entry cases, which in practice funneled parents into the criminal system and led to wid...
sharply expanded family detention beginning in 2014, opening multiple large family residential centers to detain mothers and children arriving from . That expansion triggered sustained legal challenge...
During , advocacy groups and independent reviewers counted in custody, including at least six suicides, and multiple independent analyses concluded that substandard medical care contributed to a subse...
A definitive, facility-by-facility tally of during the administration is not available in the documents provided; public records in these sources instead report apprehensions of "family units," counts...