ICE Detention Center Standards Improve, Being Released is Now Even MORE Difficult

With the improvement of living conditions at ICE Detention Centers you would believe that immigration overall is improving, however that is not the case. Immigration attorneys are fighting hard for the release of detained aliens.

Laura Lichter, former president of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, comments saying, “It’s a nicer deportation mill. It’s still a shit-show, it’s just different shit now”.

Lichter alongside other immigration lawyers accuse ICE detention centers of making the release of illegal immigrants more difficult. While the number of illegal woman and children that have crossed the border this year is dramatically less than 2014, there has still been a reported 13,911 apprehended family units.

The CARA Family Detention Center Pro Bono Project has been created to assist the illegal families being held in ICE family centers. The CARA Project has 70 volunteers that have been teamed up from the 4 nationwide immigration advocate organizations – Catholic Legal Immigration Network, the American Immigration Council, the Refugee and Immigration Center for Education and Legal Services, and the American Immigration Lawyer Association – which has resulted in the release of more than 550 women.

While the CARA Project and other immigration advocates are making strides towards the award of an immigration bail bond and ultimately the release of the detained family, there is still a lot of change that the immigration system needs to undergo.