Posted on 03/06/2021 4:30:49 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
HOUSTON - U.S. immigration authorities will no longer use a small Pennsylvania detention center to hold parents and children seeking asylum, part of a broader shift by President Joe Biden’s administration to reduce the use of family detention.
In a court filing Friday, the U.S. government said it had released all families detained at the 96-bed Berks County family detention center in Leesport, Pennsylvania. The detention center will instead be used by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to hold adults, the government said.
Families will still be detained at larger detention centers in Karnes City and Dilley in Texas, but the government intends to hold people at those sites for three days or less, the court filing said.
Lawyers who work with detained immigrant families welcomed the news and credited the Biden administration for announcing the shift. But they noted that even shorter detention stays could be harmful to children.
“Family detention will never truly be over until the facilities are closed and the contracts with ICE end,” said Bridget Cambria, executive director of the legal group Aldea - The People’s Justice Center.
All three family detention centers opened when Biden was vice president to President Barack Obama. While running for president, Biden pledged to release detained families.
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All these Southern states should give them a $50 meal ticket and put them on a bus headed for a final destination of Greenville, Delaware.
Psycho Joe’s finest hour party members toss cash at them your tax dollars at work.
Better yet, send them all to Malibu, Martha’s Vineyard, the Hamptons, Nancy Pelosi’s neighborhood, wherever the rich leftists live and tell them, “here’s a chance to practice what you preach. What’s the matter, don’t want them in your neighborhood? What are you, some kind of racist?”
Hypocrites.
send them to the capitol parking garage. it was good enough for the national guard.
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