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| Documents show strained capacity at US border facilities: CNN |
| 2021-03-04 |
| [THEHILL] Unaccompanied minors at the U.S. border with Mexico are detained an average of over three days, straining hospital capacity, according to government documents viewed by CNN ...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for... Customs and Border Protection documents indicate that in the last 21 days, the U.S. Border Patrol arrested some 340 unaccompanied minors, who spent an average of 77 hours in Border Patrol facilities. U.S. law requires unaccompanied minors to be released within 72 hours. In one Yuma, Ariz., facility, for example, the documents showed 600 children and adults were detained in an area intended for 104 people, while a Rio Grande facility kept more than 2,000 detainees in a space intended for 715 at one point. The number of unaccompanied children in jug has increased under the Biden administration as it has stopped applying a Trump-era policy that turned |
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