Immigration
Aug. 16, 2019
They call it ‘baby jail’
Reflections on my week as a volunteer attorney at the Dilley Immigration Detention Center
The South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas, a detention center for migrants who entered the country illegally, Nov. 10, 2015. (New York Times News Service)
Called "South Texas Family Residential Facility" by signage, the Dilley detention facility, which houses up to 2,400 children and mothers seeking asylum in the United States from countries in Central America, is colloquially called "baby jail" and as a visitor looking in, there is no question as to why. The facility itself, located 75 miles from the south Texas border, is surrounded by barbed wire fences and bright flood lights visible from miles away. By appearance a...
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