New family detention centers planned in U.S.
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is upping the number of detention centers for families in the United States, writes Anna Gorman, signaling the government’s ongoing crackdown on illegal immigration in the U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued a call for proposals last month and set June 16 as the deadline. New facilities are being considered on both coasts and on the Southwestern border. The agency calls for minimum-security residential facilities that would provide a ‘least restrictive, nonsecure setting’ and provide schooling for children, recreational activities and access to religious services.
Last week saw a number of raids by ICE on illegal immigrants. The agency arrested nearly 400 illegal immigrants at a meatpacking plant in Iowa, and more than 60 people were taken into custody in Los Angeles after federal agents raided a safe house.
-- Deborah Bonello in Mexico City