NPR: Shadow Immigration System: Migrant Children Detained In Hotels By Private Contractors

NPR has run a a truly troubling story.  Cousins Jorge and Ricardo, ages 16 and 13, are among a slew of migrant children caught up in a COVID-19-era “shadow immigration system” in which the Trump administration is sidestepping normal protections for children who might be eligible for asylum and instead keeping them in hotels before expelling them from the country, Joel Rose reports for NPR. “Court documents show many unaccompanied children have been held secretly in hotels for days, sometimes weeks, until they can be put on planes back to the countries they came from,” Rose reports.

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