Rep. Raúl Grijalva said the practice 'serves two purposes: lining the pockets of private prison companies and acting as a useless deterrent to prevent migrants from seeking their legal right to asylum.'
administrations, said in a statement that the policy"serves two purposes: lining the pockets of private prison companies and acting as a useless deterrent to prevent migrants from seeking their legal right to asylum."
"This failed policy is callous and inhumane," Grijalva added."I urge President Biden to instead focus on the root causes of migration, expanding our nation's asylum process to ensure that it is fair, humane, and orderly, and reunite the children forcibly separated under the previous administration.
To bolster their case against family detention, the trio quoted Biden's Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, who declared in March 2021 that"a detention center is not where a family belongs." "We should not return to the failed policies of the past," the lawmakers said."There is no safe or humane way to detain families and children, and such detention does not serve as a deterrent to migration. We strongly urge the administration to reject this wrongheaded approach."
The responses from Democratic lawmakers came as the White House refused to say whether family detention is under consideration as the administration prepares for the May lapse of Title 42, a Trump-era migrant expulsion policy that Biden has;“President Joe Biden wants to bring back family detention.\n\nLet me remind you what family detention is. These are basically jails where the government locks up immigrant mothers with their children.\n\nSounds inhumane? They are.
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