US Immigration and Customs Enforcement public relations officials prepare for a visit by Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson at a new detention facility specially designed to imprison migrant women and their children as their deportation cases move through the courts, in Dilley, Texas, December 15, 2014.
Credit: Jennifer Whitney / The New York Times

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is striking deals with private prison companies to lock up a “guaranteed minimum” of mothers with their children in euphemistically-termed family detention centers.

The 2009 congressional mandate for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to keep a minimum of 34,000 people minimum locked up at any given time is already well-established. But a new report by the Center for Constitutional Rights and Detention […]