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Tue, 05/12/2015 - 12:00am
Interview w/ Karen McMahon & Myriah Heddens at the Immigrant Law Group on Family Detention Centers
Undocumented families seeking asylum in the United States are now being detained in so-called Family Detention Centers. These are privately run facilities designed to house women and children. Some have built-in courtrooms and are staffed by Corrections Corps of America and I-C-E employees.
A new family detention center is on par to be the nation’s largest with two thousand four hundred beds.
Opponents of the immigrant detention program have gathered in Dilley, Texas to rally against the CCA’s intention to fill the nearly two and a half thousand beds this summer. It was revealed last year that the private prison corporation played a role lobbying for a proposed detention bed quota policy. The bed quota was established in 2007 and requires U-S Immigration to hold an average of thirty-four thousand individuals in detention on a daily basis.
For more about immigration detention we spoke with two members of the Immigrant Law Group here in Portland, Oregon.
A new family detention center is on par to be the nation’s largest with two thousand four hundred beds.
Opponents of the immigrant detention program have gathered in Dilley, Texas to rally against the CCA’s intention to fill the nearly two and a half thousand beds this summer. It was revealed last year that the private prison corporation played a role lobbying for a proposed detention bed quota policy. The bed quota was established in 2007 and requires U-S Immigration to hold an average of thirty-four thousand individuals in detention on a daily basis.
For more about immigration detention we spoke with two members of the Immigrant Law Group here in Portland, Oregon.
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