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Trump touts historic deportation plans, but his own record reveals big obstacles

3:40pm August 14, 2024

Former President Donald Trump and his allies promise a historic deportation effort if he's reelected. But internal documents from his time in office show how difficult that would be to execute.

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A Guatemalan teen asylum-seeker (left), who isn't able to hear or speak, signs with his mom in Florida. He was brusquely separated from her and held in a shelter for nearly three months, unable to readily communicate, according to a civil rights complaint

Homeland Security's Civil Rights Unit Lacks Power To Protect Migrant Kids

9:00am August 02, 2019

A former official in the civil rights office says the unit seems afraid to offend U.S. Customs and Border Protection and ICE. Meanwhile, the complaints of abuses of families continue to pile up.

Raymondville officials are counting on the new detention facility and operator Management and Training Corp. to bring life back to its streets.

As Private ICE Lockups Grow, Towns Could See Economic Boon

2:58pm August 03, 2018

With the promise of good-paying jobs, Raymondville, Texas, has welcomed an immigration detention center that rose from the ashes of a facility once plagued by allegations of abuse.

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The Casa Padre facility in Brownsville, Texas, is one of more than two dozen shelters for immigrant children operated by Southwest Key.

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A Latino Nonprofit Is Holding Separated Kids. Is That Care Or Complicity Or Both?

4:56pm June 22, 2018

by Camila Domonoske

Southwest Key has, for many years, operated shelters that house unaccompanied migrant children. The family separation policy shined a spotlight on that work — and raised uncomfortable questions.

Immigrants suspected of being in the U.S. illegally are transferred to be processed at the Tucson sector of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection headquarters in Arizona in 2016.

Supreme Court Ruling Means Immigrants Could Continue To Be Detained Indefinitely

2:05pm February 27, 2018

The court ruled that immigrants, even those who are permanent legal residents and asylum seekers, have no right to periodic bond hearings, meaning they could be held indefinitely in some cases.

The GEO Group's immigrant detention facility in Aurora, Colo., where detainees are challenging forced work rules.

Appeals Court Broadens Immigrant Detainee Case Alleging Forced Labor

10:43pm February 09, 2018

by Richard Gonzales

Immigrants held at a private facility under government contract say they are made to perform chores for little or no pay in violation of state and federal law.