Immigrant detention centers criticized at Capitol Hill forum

Immigrants from El Salvador at a San Antonio bus terminal after their release from a family detention center. (Eric Gay / Associated Press)With critics increasingly calling for the Obama administration to end immigrant family detention, members of Congress held a Capitol Hill forum Tuesday to hear from experts, former detainees and a former detention center employee.

At the forum, hosted by the Congressional Progressive Caucus and Democrats from the House Judiciary Committee, speakers described alarming conditions at all three of the country's immigrant family detention centers, in Leesport, Pa., and Dilley and Karnes City, Texas.

Gladys Checas, 21, a former detainee from Honduras, said she…