devoted to enforcement and detention, the government was not prepared for the kind of demographic shift that was taking place at the border. It wasn’t just the mass arrival of unaccompanied children; nationwide, ICE had only ninety-five available beds where it could detain families for an extended period. This meant that DHS had essentially two options, neither of which the administration liked. One was simply to release the families after booking them and assigning them a date in immigration court. The other was to build more detention space.
