We now know of six children who died after spending time in government custody in the last eight months. Advocates and politicians have raised the alarm that there could be more.
Immigration advocates argue that ICE detention has exploded because the Trump administration is targeting more immigrants than ever before.
The government is keeping children in rudimentary detention facilities for extended periods of time, in the care of agents who are not trained to recognize when children are ill.
Two recent deaths have renewed questions about whether or not the government can adequately care for minors in its custody.
Nationally, traffic violations constitute the plurality of charges leading to ICE detention.
Civil rights advocates argue such arrests dissuade immigrants from seeking the protection of the law.
Mark Morgan is a former Obama administration official who has become a vocal Trump supporter.
But understanding why the detained population fluctuates so significantly is more complicated than looking at the number of beds.
Attorney General William Barr's decision will make thousands of asylum seekers ineligible for bond—which could significantly increase the number of people ICE tries to detain.
The agency said that, with government detention facilities overwhelmed, it had nowhere else to hold the families.
Since public outrage forced the administration to abandon family separation, it has been searching for ways to guarantee that families remain in detention prior to a final decision on their immigration cases.
Immigrants with certain prior criminal convictions will now be placed in detention without the opportunity to petition for release.
La medida se produce cinco días después que las organizaciones legales presentaran una queja ante el gobierno por un "aumento alarmante" en la detención de inmigrantes menores de un año.
The move comes five days after legal organizations filed a complaint with the government over an "alarming increase" in the detention of immigrants under the age of one.
ICE reports there are 17 infants under one year old in a Texas facility—concerning pediatricians and immigration advocates.
What the agency actually wants is the funding to detain more people than ever before.
Pre-trial detention hurts defendants and taxpayers.
Peter Brown remained locked in a county jail for weeks, as county officials waited for immigration authorities to deport him to Jamaica—a country he had never lived in.
Hundreds of family asylum seekers were released in Arizona this week without shelter, overwhelming churches and non-profits as communities scrambled to accommodate them.
The case—Brett Kavanaugh's first as a Supreme Court justice—deals with mandatory detention laws to keep immigrants in prisons during trials, even if they aren't a public danger or flight risk.
The Department of Justice urged a federal appeals court to overturn a judge's order blocking officials from restricting abortion access for minors in immigrant detention.
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The Department of Homeland Security maintains that it does not habitually separate detained asylum-seekers from their children without just cause.
The Australian government has been dealing with a refugee crisis that is the product of decades of complex social and political circumstances.
