A Private Security Company Is Detaining Migrant Children at Hotels

[Nevilledog]

https://news.yahoo.com/private-security-company-detaining-migrant-121153639.html

The Trump administration has been using major hotel chains to detain children and families taken into custody at the border, creating a largely unregulated shadow system of detention and swift expulsions without the safeguards that are intended to protect the most vulnerable migrants.

Government data obtained by The New York Times, along with court documents, show that hotel detentions overseen by a private security company have ballooned in recent months under an aggressive border closure policy related to the coronavirus pandemic.

More than 100,000 migrants, including children and families, have been summarily expelled from the country under the measure. But rather than deterring additional migration, the policy appears to have caused border crossings to surge, in part because it eliminates some of the legal consequences for repeat attempts at illegal crossings.

The increase in hotel detentions is likely to intensify scrutiny of the policy, which legal advocacy groups have already challenged in court, saying it places children in an opaque system with few protections and violates U.S. asylum laws by returning them to life-threatening situations in their home countries.

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[SheltieLover]

1. This shit show needs to end!

[uponit7771]

2. Anyone else think Trumps child abuse is 10 x worse than being reported?

[kimbutgar]

3. The real QAnon is that these children are by sex trafficked my repukes and when we get rid of mf45

We will also find mass graves. Bad shit is happening to these kids!