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The use of family detention facilities by the Obama and Trump administrations, including the conditions and treatment of detainees.
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 significantly expanded family detention beginning in 2014, opening large family residential centers that held mothers and children together and converting sites with chain‑lin...
President Barack Obama did not implement a systematic government policy to separate children from their parents at the border like the Trump administration’s 2018 “zero tolerance” prosecutions, but hi...
and local officials report that agents took five‑year‑old into federal custody on January 20, 2026, in , and that he was transferred with his father to a in . The circumstances of the arrest are conte...
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...
Migrant detention under Trump differed from Obama more in scale, priorities and tactics than in every-day facility shortcomings: Obama maintained targeted enforcement with notable use of family detent...
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...
and have been central levers that shaped when and how parents and children were kept together or torn apart at the border: ’s long-standing requirement to fund detention capacity and successive admini...
The legal architecture that shaped family detention and expedited asylum during the Obama years was built on a decades-old Flores settlement that constrained how long and under what conditions childre...
President Barack Obama did not implement a formal, systematic policy of separating migrant children from their parents the way the Trump administration’s 2018 “zero tolerance” prosecution policy did, ...