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The Flores Settlement is a court ruling that sets minimum requirements for the detention of children.
Minors found by police may end up under two very different federal regimes: custody by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), an enforcement agency that makes detention and removal decisions, or c...
The Obama Administration’s family reunification process for unaccompanied children centered on transferring custody from DHS to the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Refugee Resettlem...
’s official policy is that it does not detain unaccompanied children and that hotels should not be used as detention sites, but reporting and litigation show that families and children have in some ca...
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...
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...
The Obama administration inherited and debated a range of non‑custodial tools — broadly called alternatives to detention (ATDs) including community‑based case management, monitoring technologies, lega...
The Obama administration significantly expanded family detention beginning in mid‑2014, opening large family residential centers and increasing use of detention for recently arrived Central American m...
Between 2009 and 2016, a mix of court decisions and state and local policies constrained some tactical tools ICE used while leaving its overall removal capacity intact: federal court settlements and y...