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Story (TIME)
March 11, 2021

A Cage is Still a Cage: President Biden Must End U.S. Detention of Children and Families

Is TIME taken over by white supremacists? Unfair, full of distortions criticism of the most popular and humane administration



President Biden was elected on a promise to end the inhumanities of the Trump Administration and to reassert America's commitment to people seeking refuge and a better life. But seven weeks in, advocates are still waiting on Biden to fulfill his campaign promise to end family detention. Recently, the Biden administration reopened the Trump Administration's massive child detention center in Carrizo Springs, Texas, and is reportedly planning to reopen the infamous Homestead child detention center in Florida. The Washington Post unveiled Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) plans to turn Berks County Detention Center into a women-only facility, and rebrand the two family detention centers in Texas as so called "rapid-processing" centers.

A prison is a prison. That's true whether it's called a "family residential facility", or a "rapid-processing center". These facilities must be torn down, not renamed.

I know what it's like to be incarcerated as a child. I'm a Japanese-American who was born behind barbed wire, in the maximum-security Tule Lake Segregation Center during World War II. When I was two years old, I was transferred to the Crystal City Family Internment Camp, run by the Immigration and Naturalization Service — the agency that evolved decades later into ICE. It is just a 20-minute drive away from Carrizo Springs and 45 minutes from the newly rebranded "reception center" in Dilley. When I see migrant children incarcerated today, I cannot help but recall my own childhood. And when I've met these children, I've seen the same trauma in their eyes that I continue to work through today.

The Biden Administration insists Carrizo Springs is a humane place to detain children, touting the classrooms, medical services, and cleanliness. However, because they are deemed "influx" or "emergency", they are subject to even fewer requirements than other facilities that the Office of Refugee Resettlement uses to hold migrant children. The political spin of Carrizo Springs and the rebranding of the Karnes and Dilley Family Detention Centers by ICE as "rapid-processing centers" is a veiled but familiar attempt to keep jailing children and families. These facilities do not allow for freedom of movement: people are deprived of their liberty.

No matter what it's called, a cage is still a cage.
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