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Original Date Announced
March 7, 2025CBS News and The Washington Post report that ICE will resume detaining families with children at detention facilities in Karnes City, TX, and Dilley, TX. An internal government report obtained by CBS indicates that "the first group of migrant parents and children" were currently being held by ICE "in a detention facility in Texas designed to hold families with minors." Additionally, CoreCivic, a private prison company responsible for managing many ICE detention centers, announced the resumption of family detention at Dilley.
Family detention was discontinued under the Biden administration, and the facilities were used exclusively for adult immigration detention over the last four years.
Trump 2.0 [ID #1592]
2025.03.04 Reported: Trump officials to reopen Texas detention center for migrant families - Washington Post 2025.03.07 Reported: Trump revives practice of detaining migrant families with children - CBS NewsCurrent Status
NoneOriginal Trump Policy Status
Status: ReportedTrump Administration Action: Change in PracticeSubject Matter: DetentionAgencies Affected: ICEAssociated or Derivative Policies
- June 21, 2018 DOJ requests relief from Flores settlement in order to detain children in family facilities
- June 22, 2018 ICE seeks up to 15,000 beds to detain families
- March 14, 2019 ICE considers phasing out family detention at Karnes
- January 20, 2025 EO 14159 ยง 10 Directs DHS to Detain During Proceedings or Pending Removal "Aliens Apprehended for Violations of Immigration Law"
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Commentary
2025.09.17 AP - Immigrant children at Texas detention facility face unsafe conditions, attorneys say
AP reports that families held at the immigration jail in Dilley, Texas have described "persistently cloudy water, delayed medical attention and long periods of time children are being detained" in violation of the Flores settlement, along with additional conditions complaints.
Go to article2025.12.18 NPR - ICE is reopening shuttered prisons as detention centers
NPR reports that ICE is reopening as detention centers empty prisons that had previously been shut down for reasons such "staffing issues, allegations of abuse, [and] even simply that there are fewer people in prison today than a few decades ago." NPR found at least 16 previously shuttered facilities that ICE has reopened as detention centers since January 2025, including the Dilley facility. Of concern, "[m]any of these prisons faced allegations of poor conditions while they were open, and they're reopening at a time when the government has cut oversight measures."
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