Despite the slowing influx of immigrants from Central America, the United States is standing firm on building illegal-immigrant detention centers.

In June, the Obama administration began a campaign to deter illegal immigrants and to better secure the Central America and Mexico border.

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The administration's move was done due to the pressure exerted by the Republicans on the president because of the unprecedented influx of child immigrants earlier in the year.

Under the campaign, a network of family detention centers will be created to house-in the child immigrants and their parents, instead of freeing them while their detention case is brought to court.

The different centers were opened in Texas, New Mexico, Artesia and Karnes to receive the immigrants, and another detention center in Texas is about to open in the following months. Just only four months into the campaign, the detention enters have become a flagship of Obama's "get tough" campaign to discourage future illegal-immigrants.

The centers expand the Pennsylvania facility, which has been operating since 2001 but only has the capacity to hold a small number of detainees.

The campaign against the entry of illegal immigrants into the country is seen as a "U-turn" for the administration, which for years have been implementing less restrictive measures, such as the use of telephone check-in procedures and ankle bracelets to monitor the immigrant families pending deportation hearings.

American Civil Liberties Union member Carl Takei said in 2009, the administration announced that it will reject the campaign to build family detention centers, but he said that the administration's "turn back" was alarming.

During an emergency request for Congressional funding in July 8, the White House included a budget request for an "increased detainment," but the full details on the plan was not specified.

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