A One-Sided Study on Detention of Illegal-Immigrant Families
By Jessica M. Vaughan, Andrew R. Arthur, and Dan Cadman on September 14, 2018
An inordinate amount of time is spent by those of us who work at the Center for Immigration Studies addressing anti-immigration-enforcement efforts that are either nonsensical on their face ("Abolish ICE!"), or that evince the kind of softball scholarship that occurs when conclusions go on the march in search of selective or dubious facts to prove them. But the effort must be made because allowing something like that to go uncontested is insupportable. This is one of those times.
On August 16, the American Immigration Council (AIC), an advocacy group established by the American Immigration Lawyers Association, issued a report entitled "Detaining Families: A Study of Asylum Adjudication in Family Detention".
The report asserts that, despite the draconian lengths to which the Trump administration has allegedly gone to needlessly detain families, those families' track record of actually appearing at immigration court removal proceedings is so startlingly high that it will be clear to any right-thinking individual that detention is unnecessary and cruel. (Those are our words, not theirs, but if you read the report for yourself, you will have difficulty arriving at any other way to interpret its findings).
https://cis.org/Vaughan/OneSided-Study-Detention-IllegalImmigrant-Families
