The plaintiffs contend that Children's Village's acceptance of the 24-bed detention center required a change in zoning for which neither the facility nor the county ever filed.
He was then in the Vermont jail, a 20-bed detention center with no medical staff run by the county sheriff's office.
The 200-bed detention facility, a sprawling tan-and-brown brick building equipped with cameras and metal detectors, opened its doors in February 1997, shortly after Congress passed the 1996 Illegal Immigration Reform law.
Last October, Bergen County Executive Dennis McNerney commissioned a feasibility study of a section of county-owned land here as the possible site of a 32-bed detention center to replace the current facility in Paramus, which is almost 60 years old and in disrepair.
Some nights the 15-bed detention room was packed with 40 or more men, some sleeping two to a mattress or crowding together on the floor.
The government went from one 95-bed detention center in Pennsylvania to three, the two newest and largest in Texas, with a total of 3,700 beds by year's end.
The Obama administration dealt with this surge of asylum-seekers by hastily turning a federal training facility in Artesia, New Mexico, into a temporary 700-bed detention facility in June of that year.
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The panoply of Republican talking points on immigration are attended to: $3 billion for arresting illegal immigrants and acquiring 1,000 more beds at detention pens.
Three weeks ago, Essex County, N.J., announced that it was seeking a company to run a 450-bed immigrant detention center, hoping to take advantage of a federally financed initiative to set up such facilities with better supervision and medical care.
Officials in Essex County, N.J., announced Thursday that only one company had bid on a contract to run a 450-bed immigration detention center that federal officials would like to turn into a model for such facilities across the country.
