This place broke something in us’: Kids languish in ICE detention long past 20-day court limit
Mike Hixenbaugh, NBC News (March 13, 2026)
Despite legal limits on detention length, over 900 immigrant children were held in family detention for longer than 20 days as of January, with roughly 270 confined for more than twice that limit, in conditions advocates describe as traumatic and developmentally harmful.
