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Migrant children's detention centers

A timeline of events related to United States immigrant detention centers of minors

According to a 2012 article by the The Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), since the 1980s, the United States government' enforcement action, including removal proceedings and/or detention and of non-criminal immigrant children and their families, has increased. The CIS article said that "detained children [were] subjected to inhumane conditions and abuse by federal authorities and contractors." and that "procedural safeguards" to protect migrant children, were lacking. The 1985 class action lawsuit was brought against the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) by the National Center for Immigrants' Rights, Inc through lawyers Carlos Holguin and Peter A. Schey on behalf a minor Jenny Lisette Flores who was apprehended at the Mexico-United States border and detained for months by INS, in a adult detention center. On March 7, 1988, in Jenny Lisette Flores, et al. represented by, Plaintiffs, v. Edwin Meese, Immigration and Naturalization Service, and Harold W. Ezell, a District court judge in California placed "limits on INS treatment of alien minors in custody."

1990 9th Circuit judge reverses district court judge, then overturned in banc; 1992 Case reaches Supreme Court in favor of government1997 Flores agreement reached between government and plaintiffs; 2008 Congress passes TVPRA, partially codifying Flores into law; 2015 Judge interprets Flores to include all minors, and sets 20-day limit" "Since 1997, the treatment of children in federal custody has been governed by the Flores v. Reno Settlement Agreement (FSA)." As the INS often did not comply with the requirements, Congress twice passed legislation to reform the immigration system as it applied to unaccompanied children. Later, the Department of Homeland Security began detaining children and their families in violation of the standards set forth in the FSA. Another settlement was reached to address the treatment of those children.

Southwest Key
In Arizona, Texas, and California, Southwest Key runs 27 of the 100 shelters.The Southwest Key runs 27 of the 100 shelters contracted nationwide on behalf of the HHS' Office of Refugee Resettlement. These 100 shelters were housing 11,313 by June 2018, according to HHS spokesman, Kenneth Wolfe. Southwest Keys shelters include Casa Padre in Brownsville, Texas, Casa El Presidente in Brownsville, Texas, Casa El Paso in El Paso, Texas, Nueva Esperanza in Brownsville Texas which held 208 unaccompanied minors as of May 2018 La Esperanza in Brownsville Texas, Estrella del Norte in Tucson, Arizona, Hacienda del Sol in Youngtown, Arizona Southwest Key-Casa Quetzal''' in Houston, Texas which held 233 unaccompanied minors as of May 2018 Casa San Diego in El Cajón, California, holds 65 boys aged 6 to 17. About 10% of them were children separated from their families as of mid-June 2018. Casa Lemon Grove in Lemon Grove, California, a 14-bed center for children aged 6 to 17. Casa El Cajon near El Cajón, California, an 11-bed center for children aged 6 to 17. Casa Kokopelli in Mesa, Arizona.

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 * migrant detention facilities
 * May 2019 700 migrant children
 * July 2019 c. 24 migrant children

El Paso facilities
On July 1, 2019 a Hispanic Congressional caucus, visited Casa Franklin, a facility for migrant children in El Paso." called Casa Franklin, which is run by the nonprofit Southwest Key on behalf of the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Refugee Resettlement.


 * July 2019 several hundred people are still detained.