America's Deeply Flawed Wave of Deportation Raids

At the family detention center in Dilley, Texas, immigration attorneys from the CARA pro bono law project are working overtime to file emergency appeals to stay the deportations for some Central American detainees—mostly young mothers and their young children. These families were rounded up as a part of Obama administration’s recently announced immigration raids.

A total of 121 migrants slotted for deportation were arrested over the weekend in Georgia, Texas, North Carolina, and other states, as per the most recent figures released by DHS. Secretary Jeh C. Johnson said in a statement that the migrants who were targeted “have exhausted appropriate legal remedies, and have no outstanding appeal or claim for asylum or other humanitarian relief under our laws.”