President Trump brings back practice of detaining families together

A security guard poses during a media tour of the Port Isabel Detention Center hosted by ICE in Los Fresnos, Texas in 2024. The Trump administration seeks to reopen family detention centers in the state.

President Trump — and several other former presidents — also detained families during his first term in an effort to deter migration through the southern border.

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