In March, Leecia Welch from Children's Rights visited a Texas family jail reopened by the Trump Administration, finding detained children in dire conditions. Uniquely, some kids had lived in the U.S. for years, highlighting a shift in ICE practices. Advocates worry that the agency's new tactics may involve raiding communities to fill detention centers. Cases like families being apprehended at checkpoints or deported while seeking asylum amplify fears around family separation and prolonged detention, raising serious humanitarian concerns amid ongoing immigration enforcement.
In Texas, she had an unusual experience-some of the children she met weren't recent migrants. They had been in the country for years.
Advocates fear ICE will fill its family detention centers by raiding cities in the interior.
While travelling on a highway...they were stopped at a Customs and Border Protection checkpoint, about fifty miles from the border itself.
Under the new Trump Administration, ICE is jailing not just families encountered at the border but also long-term undocumented families.
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