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U.S. detained migrant children for far longer than previously known
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Aura Bogado
@aurabogado
NEW: Children are being held in the federal government's migrant shelters for years at a time. Some of them are very young... and even include newborn U.S. citizens.
With data reporter @iff_or, for the @latimes:
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U.S. detained migrant children for far longer than previously known
Newly obtained data show that the U.S. government has detained more than 25,000 migrant children for longer than 100 days over the last six years.
latimes.com
1:22 PM · Oct 30, 2020
Aura Bogado
@aurabogado
NEW: Children are being held in the federal government's migrant shelters for years at a time. Some of them are very young... and even include newborn U.S. citizens.
With data reporter @iff_or, for the @latimes:
Illustration
U.S. detained migrant children for far longer than previously known
Newly obtained data show that the U.S. government has detained more than 25,000 migrant children for longer than 100 days over the last six years.
latimes.com
1:22 PM · Oct 30, 2020
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-10-30/migrant-children-have-languished-in-u-s-custody-for-as-long-as-7-years
In early June, a 17-year-old girl from Honduras got what she’d desperately wanted since she was 10: freedom from U.S. custody.
She’d been shuttled around the country for a good part of her childhood, living in refugee shelters and foster homes in Oregon, Massachusetts, Florida, Texas and New York — inexplicably kept apart from the grandmother and aunts who had raised her. Cut off from contact with her family, she had begun to self-harm and was prescribed a cocktail of powerful psychotropic medications. She hadn’t been taught English or learned to read or acquired basic life skills such as cooking. She hadn’t been hugged in years.
She finally made a choice: She asked to be deported, to live in a remote Honduran mountain village with her mother, who did not raise her. When she made the request, there was something the girl didn’t know: Her grandmother and aunts wanted to bring her to their home to North Carolina.
On that day in June, in the midst of a pandemic, she stepped off a plane in San Pedro Sula and into a world of poverty, violence and hunger. By then, anything looked better than another year in a U.S. immigration shelter.
The federal Office of Refugee Resettlement has a clear mandate: to hold children temporarily while it finds them a home, either with family or friends in the United States, or in foster care. But new data reveal that vast numbers of children have been stranded in custody for the long haul, living out a chunk of their childhoods in a government shelter system that’s at best ill-equipped to raise them and at worst a factory of abuse and trauma.
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Should I believe the mind-blowing case study summaries and charts this organization obtained FOIA and analyzed???
That monster took a very bad situation and purposely, maliciously, criminally multiplied it exponentially...in an unspeakably ... I'm sorry, no further adequately horrified words are coming...!
WTF! How dare have they done this! Was this at one time classified or didn't ANY AMERICAN care? - i'M GOING TO BE SICK 
