The immigration issue in the U.S. has been in the center of talks according to Fox News Latino. The most recent development in the issue is that women and children are reportedly being detained too long than the law allows.

The situation further had legislators calling for the Obama administration to end immigration raids, the Associated Press via Equal Voice reports. Meanwhile, according to Fox News Latino, the Department of Homeland Security might as well look forward to facing legal suits against advocates for keeping women and children immigrants for up to six months in detention centers like in Dilley, Texas.

"It is unconscionable that the government is holding a firm line and continuing to detain them," said Manoj Govindiah, an attorney with RAICES, one of the legal advocacy groups for women, as quoted by the publication.

Govindiah further urged that the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency lack the determination to end the long ordeal that the women and children from countries like Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala face in detention centers.

The news agency added that the long detention might be against the law such as what happened in the Flores case during the 1980s, where a girl from El Salvador was detained with adults. The case was the first to establish long-term detention of children immigrants.

However, the government has filed appeals since the current case, where mothers are with their children, does not apply to the Flores case, which talks about unaccompanied minors.

The issue was opposed by advocates like Govindiah, saying that the detention of women and children, although together, "violates letter and spirit of the Flores case."

Meanwhile, the Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson sticks to claiming making changes to the centers. "We have implemented significant reforms to how we operate our family residential centers to ensure compliance with the District Court's...orders," Johnson's statement read as quoted by the news agency.

The news comes during the call of senators in a letter to the Obama administration to slow down immigration raids and to give immigrants from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras a special status.

The letter was from 22 senators, including democrats in the Senate like Senate Democratic Leader Richard Durbin of Illinois, presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, liberal Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy, the publication reports.

In the letter, the senators urged that the situation is that of "a humanitarian and refugee crisis involving a vulnerable population and not strictly as a border security and immigration enforcement matter," the legislators wrote as quoted by the news agency.