Talk:Temporary Migrant Care Center

Merge proposal

I propose merging the Temporary Migrant Care Center article with the Immigration detention in the second Trump administration article. The article is only 786 words, it was only created in April 2025, and its Role in renditions from the United States section makes up 45% of its word count. As such, the articles have overlapping scopes, and the Immigration detention in the second Trump administration article is currently only 6,186 words (with a section in the latter article is being proposed for splitting into a separate new article), so merging the articles would still be consistent with the article size guideline. -- CommonKnowledgeCreator (talk) 03:31, 23 February 2026 (UTC)

Oppose - CATEM is not just about the Trump administration, it is also about the Costa Rican government and migration in Costa Rica. There is some overlap with the proposal but likely not enough to merge. Also, the creation date may be after there is greater attention in the US (such as Zero Units which was only created in December 2025 after the 2025 Washington, D.C., National Guard shooting). Seamlessly (talk) 08:02, 3 March 2026 (UTC)

Would you oppose the merging of the Role in renditions from the United States section into the Immigration detention in the second Trump administration article as well? -- CommonKnowledgeCreator (talk) 15:58, 3 March 2026 (UTC)

Oppose. Both CATEM and the renditions are notable on their own merits, regardless of how they fit into the policy of immigration detention in any of the involved countries during the second Trump administration, so I contest that there is a "large" overlap between the topics that you're alleging, and even if they did overlap, merging is still not indicated. See: merging should be avoided if the separate topics could be expanded into longer standalone, but cross-linked, articles. Consider that CATEM existed before the second Trump administration began and that CATEM and the choice to detain renditioned migrants there is fundamentally a matter of Costa Rican policy, not U.S. policy.

The appearance of the phrase "...in the second Trump administration" in the title of the article into which you're suggesting all these other pages be merged implies that its contents are about U.S., and specifically, the second Trump administration's, policies. Other countries can and do make their own policy, even if it is influenced by what the Trump administration does and says, and Wikipedia articles about the policies of non-U.S. countries should not be removed in favor of including the same information in an article about U.S. policy.

A more appropriate solution is to accept cross-linking and references between the two articles and to associate them by including them all together within a category, which was already done. Penguinsprite (talk) 00:29, 19 March 2026 (UTC)