‘Baby jails’: Trump administration is once again detaining migrant families with children
The Republican is reinstating a practice largely restricted under Biden and which migrant advocacy groups denounce as ‘inhumane, unjust, and unnecessary’
Parents with children as young as one have begun arriving at an immigration detention center in Karnes, South Texas. They are the first families detained by the Donald Trump administration, which has reintroduced a practice largely curtailed during the Biden administration and denounced by human rights organizations as inhumane. The families will remain in federal custody, in facilities critics have described as “baby jails,” until they are removed from the country under the president’s campaign of mass deportations.
