What Happens After a Child Is Taken Into ICE Custody?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : In September, the Supreme Court allowed ICE to stop people because of their race, the language that they speak, the way they dress, the location they are in, or the line of work they are in, pausing a lower court ruling that had barred such actions.
48% : An analysis of ICE data obtained by the Deportation Data Project showed at least 3,800 children have been detained by the agency under the second Trump Administration, over 500 of whom were under the age of five.
48% : A child without a parent or legal guardian is classified as an unaccompanied minor, and must, by law, be transferred by ICE to the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) under the Department of Health and Human Services.
47% : The directive also said parents in detention facilities cannot be deported if they need to participate in family court, child welfare, or guardianship proceedings.
46% : TIME spoke to a former ICE official and a legal expert to better understand the policies underlying the deportation operations in Minneapolis and nationwide.
46% : According to the ICE website, officers and agents are allowed to briefly detain or arrest anyone if they have any "reasonable suspicion" that the people who they approached are immigrants who came to the country illegally.
43% : Can ICE agents legally detain children without a warrant?
43% : " Why were Liam Ramos' family transferred to Texas? When parents decide to take their children with them to a detention facility, ICE needs to transfer the family to South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilly, Texas, the only facility in the United States that can house immigrant families who are waiting for their deportation proceedings.
41% : So what happens after an immigrant child gets detained by ICE?
35% : ICE's detention of five-year-old preschooler Liam Ramos in the Minneapolis area on Tuesday has sparked questions about the legality of federal immigration agents detaining children -- and what happens when they do. Ramos, one of four students in the Columbia Heights Public School District who have recently been detained amid the Trump Administration's immigration crackdown in the area, is far from the only child who has been taken into ICE custody in the past year.
21% : How often do ICE agents arrest and detain children under the age of 18 without their parents? Very rarely do ICE agents arrest immigrant children alone, according to the former ICE official who worked under the Biden Administration.

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