Associated Press: Worms in food, poor medical care, lights on 24/7: Families tell of life in Texas detention center

Immigrant detention sounds like tough going. The Associated Press looks at family immigrant detention in the south Texas’ Dilley Immigration Processing Center (and here):

"ICE booked more than 3,800 children into detention during the first nine months of the new Trump administration, according to an Associated Press analysis of data from the University of California, Berkeley’s Deportation Data Project. . . . Nearly two-thirds of children detained by ICE were eventually deported and almost 1 in 10 left the country when their parents accepted voluntary departure. . . . The number of detainees at Dilley has risen sharply since the period covered by the data, nearly tripling between last fall and late January to more than 1,300 . . . .

The increased detention of children comes as the Trump administration has gutted a Department of Homeland Security office responsible for oversight of conditions inside Dilley and other facilities."

Here is a PBS story on conditions in Dilley last month: