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Drew Anthony Smith/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Drew Anthony Smith/Getty Images The Karnes County Residential Center in Karnes City, Texas, is one of three family detention centers the federal government operates. Drew Anthony Smith/Getty Images The Biden administration is aiming to process and release migrant families arriving at the border seeking asylum more quickly — within 72 hours — by converting some detention facilities, according ...

Biden Administration Moves To Speed Up Processing Of Migrants In Family Detention at 5:28 pm NPR The Biden administration is aiming to process and release migrant families arriving at the border seeking asylum more quickly — within 72 hours — by converting some detention facilities, according to multiple sources familiar with the discussions. The objective is to turn them into processing centers where criminal background checks and full health screenings can be com...

A coalition of human rights organizations is suing the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Los Angeles, seeking access to...

Share Share A coalition of nineteen human rights and immigrants’ rights organizations filed suit against the Department of Homeland Security and its Immigration and Customs Enforcement, requesting a federal court in Los Angeles to order the administration to release records dealing with the government’s reasons for not releasing detained immigrant families together. On August 4, 2020, the coalition submitted a FOIA request to the Trump Administration seeking access to records regarding fami...

Companied immigrant children are really among the most vulnerable of the vulnerable. and when we filed this had case they had no legal rights. since we achieved a settlement in 1997, tens of thousands of children have been treated humanely and have been released relatively promptly. >> thanks to the settlement. >> you say that. thats so important. people are so concerned and frustrated. what youre outlining is amidst that for years, its these court sanctioned protections that have improved the l...

Way they were walked from one point to another. they reminded me of black sights. >> we have to leave it there. peter schey im going to ask you to stay with us through the commercial break because i want to get your view of what you call them and what your experience as a lawyer in them tells you about them. joy reed, cal perry thank you for initiating our discussion tonight. appreciate it. when we come back were joined by mike murphy and ron klain, theyll talk about the politics of this. and pe...

Through this extreme vetting process. talking about 5,000 where do you find 5,000 people to be judges? and you know where it leads? it leads to graft, it leads to a lot of other things. >> joining us is attorney peter schey, the president for the center of human rights and constitutional law. and as our viewers should by now know you have been in charge of the flores case that established the rules for treating children being held in these conditions theyve been in for the last few weeks on the ...

Surgery, which i didnt hear anybody say. the president didnt say a word about the first ladys visit to the southern border last week. after she visited a small number of teenagers being held at the nicest facility in texas, the president tweeted this about the kids being held in the trump cages. the democrats tell their phony stories of sadness and grief. now did he say that because the first lady told the president that after her visit? that those kids that she met told her phony stories of sad...

We have been monitoring the conditions of their detention for several years, but more recently in the previous six months we have found children sleeping for several nights on cold, concrete floors with no mats or mattresses. we have found children with only access to dirty drinking water. we have found children in soiled clothing and wet clothing with no change of clothing. the conditions are fairly atrocious at this time. >> thank you for joining us once again tonight, peter schey. really appr...

It seems in legal terms they are all legally incarcerated. they are not free to go, no matter where they are. >> these children are definitely incarcerated. we have been monitoring the conditions of their detention for several years, but more recently in the previous six months we have found children sleeping for several nights on cold, concrete floors with no mats or mattresses. we have found children with only access to dirty drinking water. we have found children in soiled clothing and wet cl...