On a rare tour, ICE lets news cameras into facility where Trump admin plans long-term family detention.
On a rare tour for reporters and news cameras of the only family detention center of its kind -- a remote campus housing adult mothers and young children -- the acting head of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement defended the facility as the Trump administration plans to lift the legal limits on detaining families.
Earlier that day, the administration formalized a new policy to replace court-ordered standards which have regulated the detention of migrant children. Those guidelines included a 20-day cap on the amount of time a minor can be held in immigrant detention. On the afternoon of the acting ICE director’s tour, mothers and their kids gather in the cafeteria for a choice of roast chicken with peas and carrots or hot dogs. Three hot meals a day are served here. Extra snacks are sold in a small convenience store that’s stocked with chips, candy and “cup of noodles” soup.
The head of the UNICEF USA, the United Nations’ aide fund for children in the U.S., strongly opposes the administration’s move and said any decision to detain children is dangerous. Albence said there’s room in the ICE budget detain people for longer at the Dilley facility, which he said has the space to hold as many as 2,400 people. The agency is not able to open more centers without the additional funding. There is another detention center in Pennsylvania, although it's considerably smaller with a capacity less than 600.
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