Revealed: Biden administration holding tens of thousands of migrant children
Confidential data obtained by AP shows the number of children in government custody more than doubled in the past two months
Garance Burke, Juliet Linderman and Martha Mendoza for the Associated Press
Tue 11 May 2021 11.37 EDT
First published on Tue 11 May 2021 10.26 EDT
The Biden administration is holding tens of thousands of asylum-seeking children in an opaque network of some 200 facilities that the Associated Press has learned spans two dozen states and includes five shelters with more than 1,000 children packed inside.
Confidential data obtained by the AP shows the number of migrant children in government custody more than doubled in the past two months, and this week the federal government was housing around 21,000 kids, from toddlers to teens.
A facility at Fort Bliss, a US army post in El Paso, Texas, had more than 4,500 children as of Monday. Attorneys, advocates and mental health experts say that while some shelters are safe and provide adequate care, others are endangering children’s health and safety.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/may/11/us-migrant-children-opaque-network-facilities
