Are there other regulations and policies that affect children during immigration enforcement actions?
During 2007, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) developed three policy memoranda that consider the needs of children in immigration enforcement activities. • ICE officials must develop comprehensive plans to quickly identify the sole caregivers of children prior to conducting workplace raids that result in the arrest of more than 150 people. The guidelines also stipulate that ICE should facilitate communication between detainees and their family members by providing detainees with access to a telephone and staffing a toll-free hotline so that relatives seeking information about the location of a family member will have reliable, up-to-date information. The hotline number for finding family members does not seem to be widely available so far. As an alternative to the hotline number, we recommend contacting the nearest detention center. To find the center and contact information, the Detention Watch Network website is helpful. It gives detention center information and provides con
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