News & Commentary about Family Detention
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Jan 12, 2024
Government Agencies Shouldn't Be Allowed to Destroy Their Paper Trail of Medical Abuse and Neglect
![A young child holds on to her mother legs as they wait with other families to request political asylum in the United States, across the border in Tijuana, Mexico.](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2022/11/DHS_ANNIVERSARY-Blog-V3-400x266.jpg)
Nov 23, 2022
20 Years Later, It’s Time to Overhaul the Department of Homeland Security
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Jan 27, 2022
Why Is America So Keen on Separating Families?
![A U.S. Customs and Border Protection vehicle is seen next to migrants after they were detained and taken into custody.](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2021/12/Blog-CBP-400x266.jpg)
Dec 17, 2021
New Guidance Fails to Stop Mistreatment of Pregnant People and Their Children in Detention
![Migrants in custody at U.S. Customs and Border Protection processing area under the Anzalduas International Bridge, Friday, March 19, 2021, in Mission, Texas.](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2021/08/Regular-Border-Patrol-400x266.jpg)
Aug 9, 2021
Border Patrol Must Stop Holding People in an Inhumane Outside Pen Under a Highway in South Texas
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Jul 21, 2021
Secretary Mayorkas Pledged to End His Agency’s Anti-Immigrant Abuses. Here’s What He’s Delivered.
![Two children wear masks and hold signs that read "I want my dad free and healthy" and "I want my dad alive not dead!!" as part of a protest calling for the release of detained immigrants in front of the GEO Detention Center in Aurora, Colorado.](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2020/04/ICE-Detention-and-COVID-Full-Bleed-Header-Image-400x266.jpg)
Apr 8, 2020
“They Don’t Care if You Die”: Immigrants in ICE Detention Fear the Spread of COVID-19
![Back of an Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer's vest that reads "POLICE ICE." Taken in Portland, OR.](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2020/02/ICE-Destruction-Header-Image-400x266.jpg)
Feb 18, 2020
ICE's Destruction of Records Must Be Stopped
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Aug 24, 2018
‘My Son is Traumatized’: One Separated Family’s Reunion