Border Patrol is holding more than 1,000 unaccompanied children, the highest level since April
The number of detained unaccompanied minors is increasing once again, after it peaked during the spring
Josh Marcus
San Francisco
19 hours ago
US Customs and Border Protection is holding more than 1,000 children who crossed the US-Mexico border alone, the highest number since 27 April, during an unprecedented surge in young asylum-seekers.
The children, often held in jail-like conditions at facilities with poor health and safety records past a court-mandated limit of three days, will remain in CBP custody until they can be placed in a formal refugee shelter or reunited with a family sponsor already in the country.
The 1,040 children in CBP custody is well below the record 5,767 the agency recorded this March, as well the level during the Trump administration, where CBP regularly held more than 2,000 children. But it’s a reminder that for all of the heated rhetoric around the border, neither the Trump nor the Biden administration has done much to change the root causes of migration which send people to the US.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/border-patrol-mexico-unaccompanied-minors-b1870800.html
