Immigrant detention facility plan raising human rights, child welfare alarms

NASW is deeply concerned by the path the Trump Administration’s deportation policy has taken – on many fronts – since its inception in January 2025. We are appalled by the dangerously aggressive disregard for due process by ICE agents. However, we are equally shocked by the emerging human rights and child welfare crisis in the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) expansion of immigrant detention facilities — driven primarily by its plan to apprehend and deport as many as a million immigrants in a year.