Biden administration’s immigrant detention moves highlight strained system
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Biden administration’s immigrant detention moves highlight strained system

The administration is shaking up federal immigration detention and enforcement amid a push to cut costs systemwide and increase detention capacity to implement President Biden’s new asylum policy. The bombshell cost-cutting plan came out Monday, when Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced the closure of the South Texas Family Residential Center, a 10-year-old detention facility better known as Dilley. Advocates are reporting other cost-cutting measures — in particular,...