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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 to multiple sources familiar with the discussions. The objective is to turn them into processing cen...

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 completed, before migrant parents and children are released with orders to appear in court. A possibili...

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 family detentions and the Trump administration’s failure to release children, but no records were rele...

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. that's so important. people are so concerned and frustrated. what you're outlining is amidst that for years, it's these court sanctioned protections that have improved the lives of some people. flores they know about it. peter schey, thanks for coming on tonight. >> app...