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Biden Child Detention Facilities More Massive in Scope, Less Humane Than Administration Admits Posted by Curt on 16 May, 2021 at 1:16 pm. Be the first to comment!
by RICK MORAN
According to a confidential report obtained by the Associated Press, there are “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.”
There’s much more. Because the Biden administration has been trying to play down the crisis, they’ve allowed thousands of children to enter “shelters” that are little better than private homes with a lot kids running around. There are no standards for these homes and children have been “coming out sick, with COVID, infested with lice, and it will not surprise me to see children dying as a consequence, as we saw during the Trump years
According to a confidential report obtained by the AP, there are "tens of thousands of asylum-seeking children in an opaque network of some 200 facilities
May 13, 2021
Unlicensed shelters in vacant sites across the U.S. are housing thousands of unaccompanied migrant kids for weeks at a time.
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Border jails housing unaccompanied migrant kids like this site in Donna, Texas, are no longer packed. Today at this facility, rather than approximately 3,700 unaccompanied children, there are 334, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said last week.
The Biden administration is now transferring children out of border patrol custody at a much faster pace than earlier this year even releasing before and after photos of detention to tout what it calls tremendous progress.
But the crowding hasn t been solved. It s merely moved to other facilities run by Health and Human Services like vacant convention centers and military bases sites that have been mostly closed to the media.
By GARANCE BURKE, JULIET LINDERMAN and MARTHA MENDOZA, Associated Press
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.