The #Biden admin ended #family #detention in 2021. #CoreCivic managed the facility from 2014 through Aug 2024, when the company said #ICE terminated funding for the contract & the facility remained dormant.

#CoreCivic, the corporation that operates the facility, announced that it had reached an agreement w/ #ICE to reopen the South #Texas #Family *Residential* Center in #Dilley, TX, w/room for up to 2,400 people, making it one of the largest #detention centers in ICE’s portfolio.

CoreCivic spox Steve Owen said “it’s our understanding that this will be housing families again. It’s a family residential center.”

ICE uses several databases & govt records to track down targets.

…Mellissa Harper, a former #ICE official who now heads #ORR, told a staff meeting on Thurs that the agency plans to use #DNA tests to establish familial relationships, one of the sources said. It was unclear whether DNA tests would be used only on cases that raised a red flag, or on a routine basis.

In the memo, #ICE said it had collected data from a number of sources on unaccompanied #minors & sorted them into 3 priority groups, "flight risk", "public safety" & "border security."

It directed agents to focus on #children deemed “flight risks” - including those ordered deported for missing court hearings & those released to sponsors who are not blood relatives.

As well as enforcing #immigration laws, the memo, headlined the “Unaccompanied Alien Children Joint Initiative Field Implementation,” said the initiative aims to ensure that #children are not victims of #HumanTrafficking or other forms of #exploitation.

The memo said the children would be served a notice to appear in immigration court or deported, if #deportation orders were pending against them.

The #FamilySeparation policy, including #babies from nursing #mothers, was met w/widespread international outrage. #Trump halted the policy in 2018, though up to 1,000 #children may still remain separated from parents, per Lee Gelernt, the lead #ACLU atty in a related legal challenge.

During his first term, #Trump introduced a "zero tolerance" policy that led to the separation of migrant #children from their parents at the #border. The children were sent to children's shelters run by the Office of #Refugee Resettlement (ORR), a government agency housed within the #HHS, while their parents were detained or deported.

BTW we rarely speak of #familySeparation of African Americans, Native Americans and Jewish families as another #nazi #fascist #whiteSupremacist genocidal tactic:

Holocaust survivor describes how Nazis took his brother’s life | AP News - https://apnews.com/article/manfred-goldberg-survivor-holocaust-jewish-auschwitz-memorial-17323374caa7c6556ce45c45dade8292

Slavery and America’s Legacy of Family Separation - AAIHS - https://www.aaihs.org/slavery-and-americas-legacy-of-family-separation/

U.S. Boarding Schools Were The Blueprint For Indigenous Family Separation In Canada : NPR - https://www.npr.org/2021/06/03/1003020286/u-s-boarding-schools-were-the-blueprint-for-indigenous-family-separation-in-cana

[had to take a break to walk the dog]

#Republicans are full on lying in their question setups. They laid the victims of Trump’s #FamilySeparation policy at Biden’s feet ffs. Outrageous.

Among the #Biden executive actions rescinded by #Trump include an order that directed the federal government to prioritize racial #equity in its policy making.

The Trump admin revoked a Biden executive order that created a task force to reunify families separated at the southern #border. In the time the task force was in place, it reunified nearly 800 children with their parents, according to a report it released last year.

@SnowshadowII

Edited for clarity... The context for my remarks are the threats made by Trump, which I think are a) absurd, b) manipulative, and c) not serious. I have complete respect for Canadians and Greenlanders!

IMO... #Canada and #Greenland are "bright shiny objects" intended to distract the media, the public, and the world from the truly heinous things he and his ilk are about to do... like #tax breaks for #billionaires and #FamilySeparation. We need to watch what he DOES not what he SAYS!