Inside the remote, secretive detention center for migrant families
For about a month we’ve been asking the government, because of our status as class counsel in the Orantes injunction, to visit specific facilities. The government did voluntarily agree that we had a right to go talk to our adult class members at the Artesia facility. They’ve limited that to 25 individuals, and a certain amount of time, etc. And yesterday was our test to do what we had worked out with the government.
We had particular interest in wanting to go to the new family detention facility in Artesia. Because, first, family detention is something that we essentially had done away with the United States Hutto — after there was a lot of scrutiny about the conditions in which children, really young children, were being detained with their parents in the Hutto facility in Texas. And also because we were very concerned that it was a facility that was essentially set up to run children and their moms through expedited removal.
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