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Border congressman among highest funded by group running immigrant detention centers
U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Laredo, has received $32,400 in political contributions from a company that operates immigrant detention centers — the second most of any elected official in the country […]
Feds Empty Family Detention Centers After Texas Judge’s Ruling
*This looks like it may be the end of family immigrant detention facilities. Vl By Mark Richardson, Public News Service (1.5 minute read) SAN ANTONIO, Texas – Federal immigration centers have begun […]
TX Judge’s Order Blocks Child-Care License for Detention Centers
*Texas wants to call child immigration jails “child care centers.” That whole idea has been stopped, temporarily. Here’s how it was done. VL By Mark Richardson, Public News Service (1.5 minute read) […]
Judge: No “Emergency” to License Detention Centers
*A 1997 lawsuit settlement requires that undocumented children be held in places that protect their overall well-being. The state of Texas asked for emergency licenses for two private centers that […]
Rejecting Obama administration’s appeal, federal judge orders release of children from family detention centers by October
*Homeland Security keeps asking for ways around a 1997 settlement that required that children be released from immigration detention as quickly as possible. This is the second time that Judge […]
‘Drink more water’: Horror stories from the medical ward of a Texas immigration detention center
*ICE has begun releasing some immigrant women and children, but that doesn’t erase the accusations of neglect. There are at least 28 affidavits that outline complaints such as the “drink […]
South Texas family lockup will be nation’s largest immigration detention center
*Meanwhile, as President Obama asserts his executive order on immigration … VL By Will Weissert, Associated Press The Obama administration on Monday unveiled a former oil field workers’ camp in […]
Feds Set to Open Massive New Family Detention Center in November
*A follow up to a story we published two weeks ago. This is quick work – to set up a huge detention center in a matter of months. Congress and […]
Feds Planning Massive Family Detention Center in South Texas
*In parts of the country where non-Latinos are the majority, the not-in-my-backyard anti-immigrant detention center sentiment is strong. But in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas, where Latinos are a […]
Immigrants Launch Hunger Strike in Texas Detention Center
By Priscila Mosqueda, Texas Observer Immigrants in a for-profit detention center in Conroe are refusing to eat to protest conditions at the facility. The protests in Texas follow a similar hunger […]