ICE cuts family detention capacity, likely will release immigrant families directly into the United States

Officials say short-term measure owes to crush of families at southern border, and ICE can’t transport the migrants to detention facilities.

Migrants are gathered inside the fence of a makeshift detention center in El Paso on Wednesday. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is sharply cutting the number of families it will hold in custody because it can’t transport them to the detention facilities because of the large influx of migrants. U.S.

ICE said its adult detention space “is near capacity,” with 49,447 in custody as of last week. Nearly 75 percent of the 259,365 people booked into custody from October through March were apprehended at the border. In a letter to members of Congress on Thursday, Nielsen reiterated an “urgent” appeal for more money and authority to swiftly detain and deport Central Americans, including minors, to make room to process asylum cases. She warned DHS is “increasingly unable” to take “operational control of the southern border.”

HHS had about 12,000 minors in custody this week, and was unable to immediately confirm Nielsen’s statement. Border Patrol apprehensions remain well below their peak of 1.6 million in 2000, but the Trump administration says the nature of the flows has transformed from mostly adult Mexican men, who are easily deported, to asylum-seeking families and unaccompanied minors from Central America who have protections under federal law.

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