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The use of family detention facilities under the Obama and Trump administrations
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 ...
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 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, ...
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...