Pressure is building on the Obama administration to enhance or as a last measure, do away with the detention of women and children, and whole families. With the pressure mounting officials of the administration have agreed to let some mothers who are illegal immigrants get release from the detention center.

Earlier the very same families had been denied request for release by the U S Immigration authorities – deportation orders were now issued, according to their attorneys.

Family detention was being expanded after an inflow of more than 68,000 families from across the southern border last year, with most Central American families making the illegal crossing through the state of Texas. The impending releases were announced last Thursday.

3 family detention centers are being run at present, by the U S Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials. There is a negotiation going on with the administration by the immigrant attorneys over the case of family detention after a preliminary ruling was issued by a federal judge in the state of California.

The decision to release the families came weeks after 136 members of the Democratic Party in Congress approached the Secretary of Homeland Security to stop keeping families in confinement. A congressional delegation too is expected to make a visit to a detention center in one of the cities soon.