Trump administration preparing to restart immigrant family detention
The Trump administration is moving forward with restarting the detention of migrant families, including those with young children.
The Trump administration is moving forward with restarting the detention of migrant families, including those with young children, which could mean an increase in arrests of children and teens, according to three sources familiar with the planning.
The sources said Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is preparing to publish in the coming days a “Request for Proposal” that will ask private prison companies to bid for contracts to restart detention facilities intended specifically for families.
The Obama and first Trump administrations detained parents with their children, but the Biden administration ended that in early 2021. Under the terms of a 1997 court settlement, ICE is prohibited from holding families with children in regular ICE detention settings and must hold them for less than 21 days.
The Biden administration allowed undocumented immigrant families making their way through the immigration system to live in the United States while the head of the household was enrolled in a geolocating monitoring program, such as through an ankle monitor, even if the family was slated to be deported.
Since President Donald Trump took office again last month, most of the arrests by ICE that have been publicized have been of single adult men.
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