U.S. holding migrant children with little oversight in some 200 shelters
A facility at Fort Bliss, an Army post in El Paso, Texas, had more than 4,500 children as of Monday.
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Young migrants wait to be tested for COVID-19 on March 30 at a Department of Homeland Security holding facility in Donna, Texas, the main detention center for unaccompanied children in the Rio Grande Valley. [ DARIO LOPEZ-MILLS | AP ]
Updated May 11
The Biden administration is holding tens of thousands of asylum-seeking children in an opaque network of some 200 facilities that spans two dozen states and includes five shelters with more than 1,000 children packed inside, the Associated Press has learned.