The Trump administration is advancing when restarting the arrest of migrant families, including those with young children, which could mean an increase in arrests of children and adolescents, according to three sources familiar with planning.
The sources said that the application of immigration and customs (ICE) is preparing to publish in the next few days a “proposal request” that will ask the private penitentiary companies to offer for contracts to restart detention facilities specifically intended for families .
The administrations of Obama and First Trump arrested parents with their children, but the Biden administration ended that at the beginning of 2021. According to the terms of a 1997 judicial agreement, ICE is prohibited from having families with children in detention environments 21 -day regular.
The Biden administration allowed undocumented immigrant families to make their way through the immigration system to live in the United States, while the head of the household was registered in a geolocation monitoring program, as through an ankle monitor, Even if the family was scheduled to be deported.
Since President Donald Trump assumed the position again last month, most of the arrests for ICE who have been publicized have been of single adult men.
That could soon change once the family detention centers become online. The two existing facilities ready to take migrant families are in Karnes, Texas, which has previously been administered by Geo Group and has the ability to keep more than 3,000 people and in Dilley, Texas, which can contain up to 830 people and He was previously executed. By Core Civic, according to the websites of the facilities. Dilley is currently closed, but remains while Karnes currently has adult ice arrested and would have to change to a family installation again.
It is not clear if ICE intends to develop a new capacity or simply reopen previous family detention centers. Anyway, ICE already faces a budget deficit, and this will be an additional cost. The spokesmen of the Department of National Security and ICE did not respond to the requests for comments.
Two former DHS officials under the Biden administration said there are tens of thousands of migrants in the US and after deportation after arrest. . That could help ice to boost their deportation numbers, something that the agency is under pressure now since Trump caused the “mass deportations” to be a key promise of the campaign.
One of the former officials also warned that many families in the United States are mixed status, which means that some members are legally in the country, while others are eligible for deportation. Families in that situation could separate if some members are deported. In an interview with the “60 minutes” of CBS in October, Trump’s border tsar His united family.
