Anna Flagg and Julia Preston for the Marshall Project take an in-depth look at the U.S. government’s detention of migrant chiildren:
“Since early 2017, one of every three people held in a Border Patrol facility was a minor, a far bigger share than has been reported before now, according to an analysis by The Marshall Project of previously unpublished official records.
Out of almost 2 million people detained by the Border Patrol from February 2017 through June 2021, more than 650,000 were under 18, the analysis showed.
More than 220,000 of those children, about one-third, were held for longer than 72 hours, the period established by federal court rulings and an anti-trafficking statute as a limit for border detention of children.” (bold added).
Click the link to check out the report.
KJ
