A leaked document revealed that 823 unaccompanied migrant children spent more than 10 days in the custody of the United States Border Patrol, which is significantly longer than the 72 hours that a child should legally be kept, a report said on Sunday.
Axios said the document, which was not seen by Fox News, indicated that until Saturday 3,314 unaccompanied migrant children had been in custody for more than 72 hours. The Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to an e-mail from Fox News.
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The report pointed to a tweet from Senator Chris Murphy, DN.J., after his visit to the southern border. He tweeted that he just “left the border processing facility” and witnessed hundreds of children huddled in “large open rooms”.
“In a corner, I fought back tears as a 13 year old girl sobbed [sic] explaining uncontrollably through a translator how scared she was, having to be separated from her grandmother and without her parents, “read the tweet. He later clarified that children” are no longer separated from their parents at the border (in this case, the the girl’s parents are in the USA). “
The Biden government is struggling to manage a growing humanitarian and political challenge on the United States’ border with Mexico, which threatens to overshadow its legislative agenda.
Biden told reporters on Sunday at the White House that “at some point” he would go to the border and that he knows what is going on at the border facilities.
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“Much more, we are in the process of doing this now, including making sure to restore what existed before, which was that they can stay in place and defend themselves from their countries of origin,” said Biden on his return from a weekend. at Camp David.
The Customs and Border Protection (CBP) facilities have operated far beyond capacity amid a worrying increase in people crossing the border. The agency announced that it found more than 100,000 migrants at the border in February.
Former President Trump said in a statement on Sunday that Biden turned “a national triumph into a national disaster” in dealing with the crisis.
“We proudly handed over to the Biden government the safest border in history,” the statement said. “All they needed to do was keep this system running smoothly on autopilot. Instead, in just a few weeks, the Biden government turned a national triumph into a national disaster. They are losing their heads and facing water fast. . “
Fox News’ Yael Halon and the Associated Press contributed to this report