The T. Don Hutto Family Residential Facility in Taylor, Texas is one of two facilities in the United states that holds young children in former prisons. This facility is home to non-Mexican immigrant families including children. The facility holds 375 occupants, 200 which are children.
Families in the facility are waiting to be granted asylum or denied and deported back to their home country. Previously, when illegal families were apprehended they were released and issued a court date to appear in immigration court. Because so many families failed to appear in court some authorities feel the Hutto facility is ideal.
One particular Palestinian family is being detained with their 4 children ranging in age from 3 to 15 years old. Their father Mr. Ibrahim is being detained in a detention center in Haskell, Texas. The Ibrahim family was denied asylum but they can not return to their home country because they have been denied access to pass through Israel or Jordan to get home. Essentially the Ibrahim's are in limbo until the U.S. Immigration department gains access to their homeland or overturns their asylum denial.
The Ibrahim story is not unique so many other young children sit down the street from us in a former prison facility waiting for their destiny to be handed to them.
The Dallas Morning News
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/dmn/stories/020107dnmetpalfamily.3b835587.html
Thursday, September 20, 2007
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