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Sunday, October 18, 2015

TEXAS COULD LICENSE IMMIGRANT LOCKUPS AS "FAMILY RESIDENTIAL CENTERS"

TEXAS COULD LICENSE IMMIGRANT LOCKUPS AS "FAMILY RESIDENTIAL CENTERS"

This summer a federal judge in California unambiguously condemned the current practice of jailing immigrant women and children in Texas detention centers run by for-profit prison corporations that contract with federal immigration authorities. In July and August rulings, U.S. District Judge Dolly Gee declared that federal detention centers in the remote South Texas towns of Dilley and Karnes violate a longstanding legal settlement that prohibits the feds from keeping immigrant children in prison-like conditions.


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