Migrant Children Held In Mass Shelters With Little Oversight
The federal government is housing around 21,000 unaccompanied immigrant kids, from toddlers to teens, the Associated Press found.
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.
“It’s almost like ‘Groundhog Day,’” said Southern Poverty Law Center attorney Luz Lopez, referring to the 1993 film in which events appear to be continually repeating. “Here we are back to a point almost where we started, where the government is using taxpayer money to build large holding facilities ... for children instead of using that money to find ways to more quickly reunite children with their sponsors.”
A few of the current practices are the same as those that President Joe Biden and others criticized under the Trump administration, including not vetting some caregivers with full FBI fingerprint background checks.
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Migrant Children Held In Mass
Migrant Children Held In Mass Shelters With Little Oversight
The federal government is housing around 21,000 unaccompanied immigrant kids, from toddlers to teens, the Associated Press found.
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