Anna Flagg

ICE detention is not a good place for anybody, adults included, but definitely for a five-year-old, a child, it's absolutely no place for a child.

This is a mother and a five-year-old daughter who were at a Chicago laundromat when they were picked up by 20 armed officers in full riot gear and arrested.

They did not have access to showers, phones, or they could not brush their teeth.

They did not have edible food.

Lawyers for the families that are being held in these ICE detention facilities have talked about lack of water, lack of food, lack of educational resources or things to do, lack of proper medical care.

So normally it's part of ICE's directive when dealing with families and children to process children as quickly as possible and get them out of detention as quickly as possible.

And that is what they say that they're doing.

But if you actually look at the data that has been released about these detentions and you look at the lengths of stay that these children are serving, you see that there's kind of this big spike right around the 20-day limit.