Monday, September 30

The Biden Administration Will End Detention Of Undocumented Immigrant Families


Los solicitantes de asilo podrían esperar años para que sus casos avancen.
Asylum seekers could wait years for their cases to move forward.

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EFE

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WASHINGTON – The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Thursday celebrated the release of some immigrant families who were in custody in Texas , after it emerged that the government of Joe Biden will end the detention of undocumented families and will instead resort to electronic shackles and other tracking technologies.

“We are pleased that the government has released parents and children from the South Texas Family Residential Center,” said Naureen Shah

, an attorney for the ACLU, who called on President Biden’s Administration to end the “mass incarceration system” of undocumented immigrants.

“The Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service (ICE) should never have detained families and children,” said Shah.

Sha said she was “deeply concerned by reports that the Biden administration ignored recommendations from its own experts that ICE Please stop detaining people at the Winn Correctional Center due to a long list of documented abuses there. ”

Winn is one of the 39 detention centers located in different parts of the country that were on a list provided by the ACLU to the government in April, after its investigations into abuses committed in those centers.

For its part, the Axios news outlet stated that the federal government will stop detaining undocumented immigrant families in ICE centers , and will appeal instead to tracking anklets and other alternatives.

According to “internal data” from the government obtained by the media, there are no more migrant families left in ICE centers in all the country.

More than a hundred people were released from the South Texas Family Residential Center, in the town of Dilley, between Thursday and Friday of last week. From now on, this facility, the last in the country to house families, will be destined to house single adults.

“ICE has chosen to change the use of the building in Dilley to focus on single adults, ”an ICE spokesperson told Axios. “This is consistent with the Government’s goals of addressing irregular immigration with a border management system that is orderly, safe and humane.”

According to Axios there are almost 150, 000 undocumented immigrants under alternatives to detention such as electronic bracelets and shackles or mobile phones that can be traced, so that the migrants are provisionally released until the date of their hearings before immigration courts.

“The government has managed to more quickly enroll families in these types of programs soon after they cross the border. border, which has reduced the need for longer-term housing, ”Axios noted.