U.S. sued over detention of immigrants

“In flatlands beside silos and freight-train tracks, an old medium-security prison has been reborn as a detention site for suspected illegal immigrant families, helping end the nations controversial “catch-and-release” practice.

But the new “catch-and-remove” initiative is under fire at the 500-bed T. Don Hutto Residential Center, a privately run government facility that opened last May as part of a plan to triple detention space to 60,000 beds to accommodate those picked up in workplace raids and border crackdowns”

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