Phoenix • Half a dozen families who were separated at the U.S.-Mexico border are still detained in Texas months after reuniting with their children.
Immigrant advocates say the government has violated a longstanding legal agreement that bars it from detaining children past 20 days in unlicensed facilities like the South Texas Family Residential Center.
The detention center in Dilley, Texas, had been holding about 40 families for four months following the court-ordered reunifications. About 30 of the families were just released last week.
"We are still suffering because they don't want to set us free," said Wendy, a woman from El Salvador who arrived in the U.