Washington Post: Opinion: As Biden Mulls Family Detention, Warnings from Inside Grow Louder
This op-ed features reports by Government Accountability Project’s whistleblower clients, Drs. Scott Allen and Pamela McPherson, and was originally published here.
When news leaked last week that the Biden administration is considering detaining migrant families who cross the border illegally, the reaction was swift and harsh. Democrats and immigration advocates denounced the idea as “cruel,” “heartbreaking” and even “Trump 2.0,” a reference to use of the widely criticized policy under President Donald Trump.
It turns out that officials inside President Biden’s government are sounding their own warnings, too.
Some officials with Immigration and Customs Enforcement have repeatedly expressed resistance in internal conversations to enforcing revived family detentions, two people familiar with the talks told me. They fear a potential logistical and public relations nightmare that won’t substantially improve management of the situation, the sources said.
“They don’t want to get into the business of detaining children or families,” one of those sources told me. ICE officials have conveyed this “consistently” to Department of Homeland Security and White House officials, the source said, due to concerns about “safety, cost and harm.”
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