Chuck Darwin<p><a href="https://c.im/tags/Family" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Family</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/detention" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>detention</span></a> is being resurrected by Trump.</p><p>Families have begun to arrive in recent days at a detention facility in South Texas, <br />and immigration lawyers are expecting more to be brought in the coming days. <br />A second detention center, also in South Texas, is being readied for families.<br />Each of the facilities is being set up to hold thousands of people. </p><p>At one site, lawyers say, multiple families are being detained in rooms with four to eight bunk beds and shared bathroom facilities.</p><p>With the border now quiet and illegal crossings notably low, immigration enforcement has shifted to the interior of the country.</p><p>That has led to arrests of people with established ties to communities, <br />who had been working or going to school before their families were taken into federal custody. </p><p>And some of them are bound for the newly reopened detention center in <br /><a href="https://c.im/tags/Karnes" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Karnes</span></a>, Texas, <br />and the soon-to-be-reopened detention center in <br /><a href="https://c.im/tags/Dilley" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Dilley</span></a>, Texas, <br />-- both south of San Antonio.<br /><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/us/family-detention-immigrants-trump.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2025/03/17/us/fami</span><span class="invisible">ly-detention-immigrants-trump.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare</span></a></p>