The influx continues.
Over the months, thousands of unrecorded women, children and entire families have been coming in droves to the United States from countries of Central America. To escape the violence in these areas – especially in places like El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala migration has been happening on a large scale.

To accommodate those detained during their efforts to enter the country ICE, or the Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the government agency that deals with immigration detainees have been detaining families, including women and children in detention centers in some places, like Texas and Pennsylvania. Many advocates of immigrant rights declared this to be extremely outrageous and protested against such detention, saying it was illegal. Activists and lawyers said this was going against the ruling of a court in the year 1997 which states that the practice was against the law. It was argued that immigrant detention centers did not meet the standards and moreover, it was ruled that they should be held in the least restricting environment that was possible.

A Los-Angeles District Court Judge issued a temporary ruling in April, stating that the policy of detaining the women and children should be stopped. The 24th of May was given to both sides to arrive at an agreement. If this was unable to be done then the judge indicated that the families would be ordered to be released. “The Obama government would have to decide to release either just the children, or all the families that were seeking asylum, or it could change the way it housed the families”, the judge stated.