immigrant detention

The Trump administration continues to send pregnant migrant youth to shelters in Texas over objections from its own child welfare officials. Several have had to leave the state for medical care.

The ICE detention center in Dilley, Texas, is again at the center of a national fight over the detention of migrant families and children. But for Tania Warner, the controversy is not abstract. It is something she says she lived through with her 7-year-old daughter.

San Antonio Congressman Joaquin Castro (D) inspected a federal shelter in San Benito, Texas Tuesday and raised serious questions about how pregnant migrant minors are being cared for.

South Texas Congressman Henry Cuellar said he is pressing for details from U.S. Department of Homeland Security about a newly acquired East Side warehouse in San Antonio that will become a major ICE immigration holding site.

The native of El Salvador and resident of Maryland has become a symbol of the Trump administration's policy of mass deportations after he was mistakenly sent to a prison in El Salvador in the spring.

The wave of legal challenges is in response to the Trump administration’s intensified immigration enforcement and its new policy expanding mandatory detention for undocumented immigrants.

Sociologist Joanna Dreby interviewed 99 young adults in New York to examine the impacts of enforcement-first approaches to immigration policy.

NPR has learned that the Pentagon has also approved the expansion of the U.S. Naval Base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, for the same purpose.

ICE detentions surge while deportations lag. NPR found overcrowded facilities lacking food and medicine after speaking to dozens of detainees, families, and lawyers over the past month.

The video, shared with Texas Public Radio by a human rights worker who asked to remain anonymous due to their work with the Mexican government, appeared to show guards at the detention facility walking away as the fire raged.