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ICE Might Have to Shift

It seems like a simple notion: Children who haven't committed crimes shouldn't be locked up in a converted medium-security prison, especially when there are alternatives.

Congress has advised U.S. immigration officials not to do it. A decade-old settlement between immigration officials and human rights advocates says not to do it. The Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children has asked immigration officials to stop doing it. And the American Civil Liberties Union has sued the immigration officials to get them to stop doing it.

Houston Chronicle, by Lisa Falkenberg