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Migrant detention centers for minors (United States) are sites where minors, whose entry into the United States, is illegal or unauthorised, are held until a decision is made by immigration authorities to grant a visa and release them into the community, or to repatriate them to their country of departure.

Immigration detention in the United States
In the United States, by 2010, children were held along with 31,000 non-citizens were in immigration detention center. wikipedia (to be summarized) While some detention centers were sole-purposed, jails and prisons have also been used to detain migrants.

Detention centers have been the subject of debate. In May 2008 Congress began considering a bill to set new standards for immigrant detainee healthcare.

Context
The largest immigration detention system globally is in the United States. The Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) was established in 2003. ICE enforces the United States' immigration and customs laws including deportation. ICE's Office of Detention and Removal Operations (DRO) oversees the detention and deportation of immigrants, including minors. in taken into custody by ICE. Currently, ICE detains immigrants in fifteen detention centers (including privatized facilities), in state and local jails, in juvenile detention centers, and in shelters.

GEO Group
The GEO Group, George Zoley Chairman) & (CEO) According to The GEO Group's Chairman) and CEO, George Zoley, the group has been in partnership with ICE since the 1980s.

By 2013 GEO managed 96 facilities worldwide totaling approximately 73,000 beds, including 65,949 active beds and 6,056 idle beds. The company had an average facility occupancy rate of 95.7% for 2012. In addition to detention centers for migrants, by 2010, Geo Group, operated more than a dozen private prison facilities in the state of Texas, and nearly three dozen in the rest of the United States.


 * Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, Washington(also known as the "Center') On October 1, 2015, ICE signed a contract renewal for nine years and six months, with The GEO Group for the continued management of the GEO's 1,575-bed Center Washington. The Center was expected to generate "approximately $57 million in annualized revenues at full occupancy."


 * Broward Transitional Center in Pompano Beach, Florida
 * Aurora Detention Facility

Corrections Corporation of America (CCA)
Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) under contract with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (known as ICE) through an ICE Intergovernmental Service Agreement with Williamson County, Texas. CCA was founded by T. Don Hutto, Robert Crants and Tom Beasley, in January 28, 1983 in Nashville, Tennessee.


 * The T. Don Hutto Residential Center Taylor, Texas, within Williamson County (2006-) was the migrant detention center for families It was converted from a medium-security state prison to an immigrant-detention facility detaining immigrant families in 2006.