Reports the Biden administration is considering reinstating migrant family detention at the southern border sparked outrage from immigration activists, but former Trump administration officials are skeptical about how useful such policy initiatives from the Biden administration would be if implemented.
“It’s just 180 degrees from what their strategy has been. Since day one, their strategy has been the antithesis of detention,” former acting Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Mark Morgan told Fox News Digital. “They view that as inhumane and not something that they support. So the fact that there’s talk about detaining families again, I’m very skeptical.”
Multiple outlets reported Monday that the administration is considering reviving the detention of migrant families who cross the border illegally.
Such a move would mark a significant reversal for the administration, which ended the practice in 2021 and instead released migrant family units into the U.S. interior with…
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