700+ kids stay in detention at US border, 200 for over 48 hours, amid spike in unaccompanied crossings – media

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Lots of of unaccompanied minors have been held on the US border ready to be processed, Axios reported. Nearly a 3rd of them have been lingering in detention for greater than two days, because the backlog piles up.

Round 700 minors who crossed into the US on their very own had been saved in Border Patrol Custody as of Sunday, Axios reported on Wednesday, citing an inner Customs and Border Safety doc.

By that point, round 200 kids had already been held up for over 48 hours, and within the case of 9 youngster migrants, for over 72 hours, which exceeds the utmost restrict beneath the Flores Settlement Settlement, which stipulates that CBP can’t maintain kids for greater than three days. Per the identical settlement, asylum-seeking kids transferred to ICE detention facilities can’t spend greater than 20 days there, after which they should be launched.

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The processing system is beneath rising pressure attributable to an inflow of kid migrants. In January, CBP encountered 5,707 youngster migrants on the southwest border, virtually a thousand greater than in December (four,855).

President Biden, who was promising a U-turn from the Trump administration’s ‘zero tolerance’ immigration coverage, has just lately come beneath fireplace for reopening a toddler detention facility in Carrizo Springs, Texas. The Biden administration was fast to defend the transfer as a brief repair within the occasions of pandemic, arguing that the notorious Trump facility was reopened for the reason that Workplace of Refugee Resettlement can’t home as many asylum seekers as earlier than because of the Covid-19 restrictions. 

Nonetheless, the choice has drawn comparability with Trump’s vilified “retaining kids in cages” coverage, and has drawn scorn from fellow Democrats, equivalent to New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

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