Impact of Detention and Electronic Monitoring on Immigrant Children’s Well-Being

As immigrants cross into the United States, or in cases where local law enforcement agencies have agreements with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), immigrants are often imprisoned in detention facilities until their immigration court cases can be heard. When they are released, some are subjected to state monitoring through GPS tracking devices. Often neglected in these accounts are what happens to detained immigrants’ children and how they respond to their parents’ detention and their tracking through such devices. In this episode, we will be discussing the impact of immigrant detention and alternatives to detention on children’s well-being.