A record 3,200 unaccompanied children are being detained at US Border Patrol facilities that resemble jail cells, with nearly half of them held for longer than the legal limit of three days.
This comes as immigrant justice advocates are denouncing the Biden administration’s ongoing detention of children, who are being held at government facilities, separated from their families for weeks on end.
The children usually arrive to the US-Mexico border with a family member but are separated from them until federal officials confirm they’re relatives.
SOURCE: Democracy Now
