Border Network for Human Rights

New research from the Brookings Institution estimates that over 145,000 U.S.-citizen children may have experienced parental immigration detention since January 2025.

Behind detention numbers are families, children, and communities navigating trauma and separation.
At BNHR, we believe communities deserve dignity, stability, and human rights—not fear and family separation.

🔗 Read more from Brookings:

brookings.edu/articles/the-administration-has-detained-400000-immigrants-what-do-we-know-about-their-children/

El en la frontera tiene un significado distinto. 🫂

Durante casi nueve años, BNHR, a través de , ha sido testigo de algunos de los momentos más poderosos de amor y resiliencia: madres abrazando a sus hijos después de años separados, familias reuniéndose entre lágrimas, sonrisas y esperanza. ❤️‍🩹

Estos momentos nos recuerdan que detrás de cada debate migratorio hay familias. Madres. Hijos e hijas. Personas que continúan amándose a través de las fronteras, a pesar de los muros, la distancia, la detención y la separación.

En este Día de las Madres, honramos la fuerza, el sacrificio y la valentía de las madres en nuestras comunidades fronterizas y más allá. Honramos a cada madre que ha luchado por mantener unida a su familia, a cada madre que continúa amando desde la distancia y a cada familia que espera el día en que pueda abrazarse libremente de nuevo. 🌹

El amor de una madre no conoce fronteras — y la dignidad, la compasión y la humanidad tampoco deberían conocerlas.

“Esto no es solo un centro de detención; es una fábrica de deportación construida sobre logística industrial para mover a las personas como si fueran carga. Estamos presenciando la industrialización del sufrimiento humano,” declaró Fernando García, director ejecutivo de BNHR.

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DHS y ICE en Socorro, Texas: “Mega centro” apunta a una industria de la deportación - Circuito Frontera DHS proyecta mega centro de detención migratoria en Socorro; Activistas denuncian aumento de arrestos y criminalización de migrantes en Texas.

Honk if you believe families belong together, not in cages. 🚗📢

Today, our community took to the streets for a car caravan and press conference to oppose the rise of ICE “warehouse” detention facilities.

From El Paso to communities across the country, we’re saying NO to mass detention.

El Paso is showing up. 🚗✊🏽

This Saturday, our community is mobilizing to say NO to ICE mega-detention warehouses and the expansion of mass incarceration at the border.

Across the country, industrial sites are being turned into massive detention centers designed to cage thousands. Here in our region, a proposed facility in Socorro could detain up to 8,500 people—one of the largest in the nation—while draining critical resources like water from our communities.

We’ve already seen the harm: inhumane conditions, lack of medical care, and systemic neglect. Expanding this system will only make things worse—for those detained and for the long-term health of our border communities.

At a time when deaths in ICE custody are rising, we’re coming together to demand something different: communities, not cages.

📍 WHAT: Car caravan + press conference
📅 WHEN: Saturday, April 25 | 10:30 AM
📌 START: Ysleta Park Center → Cougar Park
👥 WHO: Border Network for Human Rights, Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center, New Mexico Immigrant Law Center, ACLU of Texas + community leaders

This is part of a nationwide day of action to stop the expansion of detention and defend our communities.

Show up. Speak out. Bring your people.

Love means protecting human rights. It means dignity, safety, and unity for all families. No one should live in fear of separation, deportation, or harm. ✊🏽

This Valentine’s Day, we are demanding ICE out of our communities, an end to family separation, and policies that support and protect every family, because love and human rights belong to everyone. 💌