Last year, the Trump administration detained thousands of children like Amalia. Many were held in the detention center in Dilley, often for weeks or months at a time. Most of the people sent to the 2,400-bed facility were eventually deported to other countries. But 45% of them were released to await the outcomes of their cases in immigration courts, according to data obtained by the Deportation Data Project and analyzed by The Marshall Project. After leaving Dilley, families face the medical, psychological and financial repercussions of detention. And while they are relieved to leave the harsh conditions of detention, families say the release itself can also be harrowing.
Man it’s hard to read an article like that and not think that the whole point is cruelty and harassment.
Only 45% of detainees faced trial, and the rest were deported? I highly doubt 55% of detainees voluntarily self-deported. Where’s the due process?
Dropping them off at a shelter hundreds or thousands of miles from where they were picked up with just the clothes on their backs? How is this not cruel and unusual?
Dropping them off at an independent, charity shelter, and then not financially supporting the shelter at all, while knowingly sending them far more people than they can handle.
And many are wearing ankle monitors? May as well sew a star of David onto their sleeves.
People losing jobs and homes. Kids missing education and facing permanent injury due to substandard healthcare.
Not to mention kids just…missing. Probably starting a new life as a “masseuse” for the rich and horny.
This is America?
