Airdate: Thursday, April 9 at 10 AM
Last winter, ICE ramped up immigration enforcement in several American cities. It was a strategy that shifted focus from the US Mexico border to the streets of American cities. That led to a spike in the detention of families and children, most notably the arrest of 5-year-old Liam Ramos in Minneapolis. According to the Marshall Project, more than 6,000 children have been held so far during Trump’s second term, and the daily detention rate in January was ten times higher than the Biden Administration’s final days. What are the conditions within these detention centers? And what are the lasting effects on the young detainees?