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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 U.S. 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.
Revealed: Biden administration holding tens of thousands of migrant children
Young migrants wait to be tested for Covid-19 at the Donna facility in the Rio Grande Valley in Donna, Texas, on 30 March 2021. Photograph: Dario Lopez-Mills/AFP/Getty Images
Young migrants wait to be tested for Covid-19 at the Donna facility in the Rio Grande Valley in Donna, Texas, on 30 March 2021. Photograph: Dario Lopez-Mills/AFP/Getty Images
Confidential data obtained by AP shows the number of children in government custody more than doubled in the past two months
GaranceBurke,JulietLindermanandMarthaMendozafortheAssociatedPress
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.
Migrant children held in mass shelters with little oversight
GARANCE BURKE, JULIET LINDERMAN and MARTHA MENDOZA, Associated Press
May 11, 2021
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1of6FILE - In this March 30, 2021 file photo, young migrants wait to be tested for COVID-19 at the Donna Department of Homeland Security holding facility, the main detention center for unaccompanied children in the Rio Grande Valley, in Donna, Texas. 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 now learned spans two dozen states and includes five shelters with more than 1,000 children packed inside.Dario Lopez-Mills/APShow MoreShow Less