Some families who were separated at U.S.-Mexico border still detained months later

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Source: CBS News

PHOENIX -- Half a dozen families who were separated at the U.S.-Mexico border are still detained in Texas months after reuniting with their children. Immigrant advocates say the government has violated a longstanding legal agreement that bars it from detaining children past 20 days in unlicensed facilities like the South Texas Family Residential Center.

The detention center in Dilley, Texas, had been holding about 40 families for four months following the court-ordered reunifications. About 30 of the families were just released last week.

Many families had spent months apart after President Donald Trump's administration launched a zero-tolerance policy requiring anyone who crossed the border illegally to face criminal charges. That meant parents had to go to court while their kids went to shelters for underage immigrants nationwide.

The policy ended in the spring after worldwide uproar, but families with parents who failed their first screening as they sought asylum have remained in custody with their children.

Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/some-families-who-were-separated-at-u-s-mexico-border-still-detained-months-later/

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YOU MUST READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE..... 4 little paragraphs don't begin to explain the information contained in the story.

[KCDebbie]

1. These families are being detained at an expense

Of $770/person/day.

This family separation immigration policy is creating a windfall profits for the for-profit prison/human warehousing industry from a government that can't "afford" health care for its citizens...

[kimbutgar]

2. Some repuke donor is making a lot of money off these detention centers

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3. The story of the children

Still not returned to their parents , and where are all of them, should be a top story daily until we know where every one of them is, and returned. Were they sold? From this administration anything is possible.