Number of Migrant Children Detained at Border Has Tripled in Two Weeks
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A migrant boy walks amid tents at the Juventud 2000 migrant shelter in Tijuana, Mexico.Credit.Guillermo Arias/Agence France-Presse Getty Images
The number of unaccompanied migrant children detained along the southern border has tripled in the last two weeks to more than 3,250, filling facilities akin to jails as the Biden administration struggles to find room for them in shelters, according to documents obtained by The New York Times.
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