'Baby jails' and first steps behind bars: Trump's immigration agenda embraces family detention again

The United States has resumed placing immigrant families in detention, re-embracing harrowing operations where scenes unfold such as toddlers learning to walk under the supervision of private prison corporations and children marking their birthdays at government facilities they can't leave. If the Obama and first Trump administrations are anything to go by, parents will have to watch their little ones go hungry without familiar foods, the kinds families cook if their children aren't stuck in so-called "baby jails". Some kids will face getting sicker and sicker with serious illnesses like failing kidneys or intestinal parasites while contracted medical personnel largely…