Republican governors make a big show of banning foster care for migrant children
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Republican governors make a big show of banning foster care for migrant children
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The number of kids crowded into Border Patrol detention facilities, what came to be known as “kids in cages” during the Trump years, has dropped by 45%. However, that still leaves more than 3,000 kids in the facilities at this moment and those that remain are still being held much longer than the law allows.
As of Sunday, there were 3,130 children in the custody of CBP, an agency not intended to care for children for prolonged periods of time, marking a drop from the peak 5,767 on March 28 since the government started providing data, indicating progress in alleviating Border Patrol stations.