More migrant kids held in mass shelters, AP investigation finds
Source: PBS
Nation Dec 19, 2018 11:59 AM EST
Decades after the U.S. stopped institutionalizing kids because large and crowded orphanages were causing lasting trauma, it is happening again. The federal government has placed most of the 14,300 migrant toddlers, children and teens in its care in detention centers and residential facilities packed with hundreds, or thousands, of children.
As the year draws to a close, some 5,400 detained migrant children in the U.S. are sleeping in shelters with more than 1,000 other children. Some 9,800 are in facilities with 100-plus total kids, according to confidential government data obtained and cross-checked by The Associated Press.
Thats a huge shift from just three months after President Donald Trump took office, when the same federal program had 2,720 migrant youth in its care; most were in shelters with a few dozen kids or in foster programs. Some of the children may be released sooner than anticipated, because this week the administration ended a portion of its strict screening policies that had slowed the placement of migrant kids with relatives in the U.S.
Until now, public information has been limited about the number of youths held at each facility overseen by the Office of Refugee Resettlement, even for attorneys representing the kids. But the AP obtained data showing the number of children in individual detention centers, shelters and foster care programs for nearly every week over the past 20 months, revealing in detail the expanse of a program at the center of the Trump administrations immigration crackdown.
Read more: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/more-migrant-kids-held-in-mass-shelters-ap-investigation-finds
SunSeeker
(51,712 posts)He should be tried at the Hague for crimes against humanity.
Runningdawg
(4,522 posts)are the ones not being held in those detention areas we can see. Just like the white christians did with Native boarding schools, children are being sold to the highest bidders.
Remember the guy who was holding dozens of them in his office in CA? Well if you don't, I don't blame you. It got exactly ONE day's worth of coverage from the MSM. NO follow up on what happened to him or the kids. A Trump tweet knocked it off the headlines.
Qutzupalotl
(14,331 posts)that we can never erase, like the Japanese internments during WWII.
The policy is evil, but whom can we hold accountable, and how?
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)old children do not give them schooling or some other basic services.