Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-Texas) said Sunday that there \u201cpossibly\u201d needs to be limits when it comes to the detention of immigrant children.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe do see, though, in the courts that the Trump administration is trying to do away with limits on child detention. One of ICE’s only family detention facilities is in your district in Texas. And you did vote for the one ‘big, beautiful bill,'” CBS News\u2019s Margaret Brennan said on \u201cFace the Nation.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd it includes a provision that allows families with children to be held indefinitely, which contradicts that long-standing precedent of putting a 20-day limit on detaining children. Do you think that needs to be changed in future legislation? Should there be limits on detaining kids?\u201d Brennan asked.<\/p>\n
\u201cPossibly. I mean, the legislative piece is a much more long road,\u201d Gonzalez replied. \u201cWhat I’ve seen under both the Biden administration and the Trump administration is that it’s … a delicate balance, right? How do you keep families together? How do you make sure that there \u2014 there is coordination to what \u2014 to what country they’re going to?\u201d<\/p>\n
In the first few months of his second term, President Trump\u2019s administration has intensely cracked down on immigration. <\/p>\n
Earlier this year, the Trump administration resumed family detention of immigrants<\/a>, according to a legal nonprofit, rekindling a controversial practice mostly reduced under the Biden administration.<\/p>\n