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U.S. Detention of Child Migrants


U.S. Detention of Child Migrants - Council on Foreign Relations

A spike in apprehensions of migrant children crossing the southern US border without a parent or guardian has overwhelmed the systems set up to care for them.

Migrant children in U.S. detention face physical, mental harms: report

Children detained for a prolonged period in family immigration detention centers in the US are experiencing mental and physical harm due to inadequate and ...

Family Separation and Detention - American Bar Association

The government separated more than 2000 children from their parents at the border during the period of mid-April to June.

The Issue Of Child Immigration Detention

Whether detained themselves or impacted by the detention of their parents or guardians, children are particularly vulnerable to abuse and neglect. Children who ...

Remembering the Unaccompanied Migrant Children in Detention | FSI

This commentary is directed at protecting unaccompanied migrant children, defined as migrants less than 18 years of age who are detained without a parent or ...

U.S. Citizen Children Impacted by Immigration Enforcement

Deportations of parents and family members have serious consequences that affect children and extend to communities and the country as a whole.

Alternatives to immigration detention of children | UNICEF

Immigration detention is expensive, burdensome to administer and rarely fulfils its stated objectives as a migration management tool, and it does not act as ...

The detention of child migrants in desert camps along the US ...

More families with children are making dangerous journeys to seek safety in the US, facing tough times with their applications.

Family immigration detention in the United States - Wikipedia

Family detention is the detention of multiple family members together in an immigration detention context. In the U.S. they are referred to as family ...

Press Release: New Report Documents the Mental and Physical ...

Our study, a review of 165 medical records of children in an ICE family immigration detention facility at Karnes County Family Residential ...

Mapping Migrant Children in Detention - Kids in Need of Defense

CBP maintains short-term detention facilities along the U.S.-Mexico border that are used during initial processing of both unaccompanied children and families ...

Unaccompanied Children Released to Sponsors by State

When a child who is not accompanied by a parent or legal guardian is apprehended by immigration authorities, the child is transferred to the care and ...

Detention Management - ICE

ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) manages the nation's civil immigration detention system and oversees one of the most highly transient and diverse ...

'No Place for a Child': 1 in 3 Migrants Held in Border Patrol Facilities ...

Thousands of kids have been routinely detained in cold, overcrowded cells built for adults, while authorities have resisted improving ...

Rising Child Migration to the United States | migrationpolicy.org

The number of unaccompanied children crossing the US-Mexico border first increased notably in 2014, drawing the attention of the US government, media, and ...

UN experts advocate for an end to migrant children detention - ohchr

“Immigration detention of children is never in their best interests; it is a form of violence and a violation of children's rights,” said Najat Maalla M'jid.

Child Migrants In Family Immigration Detention in the US

The study is the first analysis of the medical records of children as young as six months old and a median age of nine years old detained ...

Judge orders Border Patrol to quickly relocate migrant children from ...

A federal judge in Los Angeles ordered US border officials to quickly process and relocate migrant children from makeshift open-air sites in Southern ...

Child and young migrants - Migration Data Portal

Collecting and disaggregating migration data by age is essential for analyzing the age dynamics of migrant populations.

'Heartbreaking' conditions in US migrant child camp - BBC

At a US border detention centre in the Texan desert, migrant children have been living in alarming conditions - where disease is rampant, food can be dangerous.