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Thursday, May 14, 2015

New Review Policy for Migrant Families in Detention

New York Times
By Julia Preston
May 13, 2015


Migrant families in detention will have more frequent case reviews to determine if they can be released, Department of Homeland Security officials said Wednesday. Women with their children being held in three family detention centers will have a first review after 90 days and then every two months after that. The immigration authorities will no longer point to a general goal of deterring illegal border crossing as the reason for detaining women and children. But the authorities will continue to place a high priority on deporting or detaining migrants caught crossing the border illegally. Central American women seeking asylum and their children have faced many months in detention while their cases moved through the immigration courts. “The new policy is designed to continually re-evaluate whether detention is necessary” for them, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said.

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