Contributed by Kim
Tremblay, Associate Attorney
Immigration
and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced today that it would close its
detention center in Artesia, New Mexico.
Since June, ICE has been detaining migrant adults found with their
children near the border at this facility.
The migrants are detained while the immigration court processes their
cases. ICE will move the detainees to
another facility in Dilley, Texas sometime in December.
Two
immigration court judges in Denver had been conducting hearings for the Artesia
detainees via video conference since September.
Their regular dockets were cancelled and cases were taken off the
calendar indefinitely on a rolling basis, about three weeks in advance. Now that the detention center in Artesia is
closing, the Denver immigration court is likely to resume its regular
operations in January and to reschedule cases with cancelled hearing
dates. This remains to be confirmed.
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