Family Detention Centers

Pressure to Stop the Practice of Placing Undocumented Immigrants in Detention Centers

This article gives attention to a practice that clearly deprives undocumented immigrants of basic human rights.  While many are focused on the Obama administration's fight in court defending executive action taken to protect undocumented immigrants, pressure is building to stop placing undocumented immigrants in family detention centers.  This practice may not be well known to us East Coasters, however California residents have been protesting the practice.

This court case has brought increased attention to the jail-like conditions where children and mothers, some pregnant, have been kept.  The Department of Justice's defense highlighted that undocumented immigrants are essentially not entitled to protections of the first amendment.