The Trump administration reaches the retention of immigrant families after a break from the Biden era

McALlen, Texas -The Trump Administration resumed the retention of the family of immigrants last week in a southern unit in Texas, after a break from the Biden era, a non-profit legal group said on Wednesday.

Fourteen families of immigrants with one year -old children were in the detention unit in Karnes County, Texas, about 50 miles (80.5 kilometers) South -est de San Antonio, according to Raices, who offer services to families in the center. Families are originally from Colombia, Romania, Iran, Angola, Russia, Armenia, Turkey and Brazil.

Faisal Al-Juburi, the organization’s foreign business director, said the families were detained in the US, near the Mexican and Canadian borders. Some have been in the US for only 20 days, and others for about 10 years, Al-Juburi said. Nonprofit provided services to adult prisoners in the center before changing the past week in the center of detention, when adult detainees were moved.

Both the Obama administration and Trump’s first administration have detained families until immigration cases were played. Trump seriously brake asylum and children forcibly separated by their parents at the border in a policy widely denounced as an inhuman.

The practice of family detention was largely stopped, but was not eliminated during the Biden administration, which in short considered restart in 2023.

The customs execution and immigration in the US did not respond immediately to an E -mail for comments on Wednesday.

Geo Group, the private corporation operating the immigration processing center in Karnes County, said the installation can have up to 1,328 people in a statement issued on Monday. He said that his contract with the federal government will take place until August 2029 and will generate approximately $ 79 million in his first year.

It is the second unity planned for family restraint. Last week, a company that operates detention centers, has announced that it has concluded a contract with ICE to own immigrant families at the residential center of the South Texas family in Dilley, Texas, with a capacity of 2,400 people.

Immigration lawyers and expressed concern for the well -being of prisoner children.

Dr. Alan Shapiro is a co -founder and chief officer of strategy for Earth National Company, who works to offer children and families of immigrants access to medical assistance and legal representation. Shapiro visited family detention centers under the first Trump administration and said that the children detained Experienced behavioral regressionAnger and thoughts of self-harm.

“I also heard about suicide idea and suicide attempts from children in the unit itself and other significant mental health problems, including self-harm and dietary disorders that were not present before detention,” said Shapiro.