The Treatment of Accompanied Children in Detention

South Texas Family Residential Center, Dilley, Texas. Photo courtesy Claire R. Thomas

Over the past 30 years, immigration detention in the United States has expanded significantly.  In 1994, there were less than 7,000 individuals detained every day in immigration detention facilities, by 2012, over 34,000 persons were detained on a daily basis.

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