Tag: children
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This article explains the statistics around ICE detention of children during the Trump administration. Over 6200 children have been held. Despite regulations limiting the detention of children to 20 days, there have been over 1600 children who have been held for more than 20 days. In mid-March, 2026, there were fewer than 100 children in…
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Watch this video with Austin Kocker (Syracuse University) and Zain Lakhani (Women’s Refugee Commission) talking about a new report “What About My Children” which interviewed deported Honduran parents many of whom were not, as the US policy requires, allowed to decide if they wanted to be deported with or without their children.
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ProPublica published this article which states that 11.000 American children have been separated from their parents because of ICE arrests.
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ProPublica wrote this article “The Children of Dilley” about the children being held at the Dilley Detention Center near San Antonio, Texas. Austin Kocher gives more details about Dilley Family Detention Center here which, as of late January 2026, holds over 1300 people (of all ages).
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“So far this year, 3,800 children have been detained by U.S. Immigration and Enforcement officers, said Krystal Gomez, managing attorney with the nonprofit Texas Immigration Law Council.” This from an article in Border Report on Jan 21, 2026. Assume this means since the beginning of the government’s fiscal year, October 1, 2025, through some time in…
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Since 1997, the Flores Agreement established a 20-day limit on the time a minor can be held in detention. A recent report from ICE indicated at over 400 children were detained for more than this 20-day limit. Read the article here.
Immigration Insight 