GROUPS WARN TRUMP ISN’T STOPPING JAILING MIGRANT FAMILIES, DEMAND DILLEY’S CLOSURE
Despite a drop in the number of families held at the controversial Dilley migrant detention camp near San Antonio, two key advocacy groups called for the site’s closure and said the White House shows no sign of stopping family detentions.
The organizations RAICES and Human Rights First called for the shutdown of the Dilley Immigrant Processing Center as they released a joint report on the prison camp on Thursday afternoon. Based on interviews with 50 families incarcerated at the site, the document accuses federal officials and private-prison firm CoreCivic, Dilley’s operator, of violating due process and exposing inmates to inhumane conditions …
“They’re trying to be cruel, they’re trying to punish, they’re trying to deter — and that’s something we’ve seen since the first iteration of the Trump administration, Trump 1.0,” RAICES co-CEO Faisal Al-Juburi said. “Right now, what’s so different is that, while the first administration, from a detention and family separation standpoint, was focused on new arrivals at the border, what we’re seeing this time around is a targeting of families who have been here lawfully and following everything the government has asked of them for 10 years, maybe longer.”
