Detention of Migrant Children Has Skyrocketed to Highest Levels Ever

[TomCADem]

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Source: NY Times

Even though hundreds of children separated from their families after crossing the border have been released under court order, the overall number of migrant children under detention has exploded to the highest ever recorded — a significant counternarrative to the Trump administration’s efforts to reduce the number of undocumented families coming to the United States.

Population levels at federally contracted shelters for migrant children have quietly shot up more than fivefold since last summer, according to data obtained by The New York Times, reaching a total of 12,800 this month. There were 2,400 such children in custody in May 2017.

The huge increases, which have placed the federal shelter system near capacity, are due not to an influx of children entering the country, but a reduction in the number being released to live with families and other sponsors, the data collected by the Department of Health and Human Services suggests. Some of those who work in the migrant shelter network say the bottleneck is straining both the children and the system that cares for them.

Most of the children crossed the border alone, without their parents. Many are teenagers from Central America, and they are housed in a system of more than 100 shelters across the United States, with the highest concentration near the southwest border.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/detention-of-migrant-children-has-skyrocketed-to-highest-levels-ever/ar-BBNfvAM?li=BBnbcA1

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What better way to commemorate our Nation's own sad history with incarceration camps, by repeating past injustices?

[lunamagica]

1. But people need to be inspired!

[Stargazer99]

2. Maybe it is time the UN & European take a hand in this Nazi like shame

[Judi Lynn]

3. Throughout my lifetime have heard people burbling "how could the Germans let them get away with it?"

Now they can simply start asking themselves why they have let this collection of sadists force itself and its malice upon the most innocent and helpless people in the world.

[SergeStorms]

4. That's why they had to steal money from FEMA.

More baby prisons. Trump and Sessions are going to show those blood thirsty children coming across the border a thing or three.

[Hortensis]

5. CNN: "It's not just FEMA: ICE quietly got an extra $200 million"

The Trump administration this summer quietly redirected $200 million from all over the Department of Homeland Security to Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, despite repeated congressional warnings of ICE's "lack of fiscal discipline" and "unsustainable" spending.

... Of the $200 million, the document says $93 million will go to immigrant detention, a 3% budget increase that will fund capacity for an additional 2,300 detainees; and $107 million for "transportation and removal," or deportations, a 29% budget increase.

The move comes as the Trump administration has pursued an aggressive immigration agenda, ramping up arrests of undocumented immigrants and deportations. ... arresting a far greater rate of noncriminal undocumented immigrants and seeking to detain them much longer. On Tuesday, the administration announced it would be tripling the size of an emergency temporary tent facility to house more immigrant children.

The additional $200 million would put ICE's budget for detention and transportation at more than $3.6 billion. The money came from different parts of DHS, including FEMA, the Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office, Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers, Coast Guard, Transportation Security Administration, cybersecurity office, and Customs and Border Protection.

https://www.ktvz.com/news/politics/its-not-just-fema-ice-quietly-got-an-extra-200-million/794289245

[DonViejo]

6. Locking...

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