Thousands of unaccompanied migrant children could be detained indefinitely
Posted on AllSides July 23rd, 2019
From The Left
An unprecedented number of unaccompanied migrant children are at risk of spending the rest of their childhoods in federal custody, CBS News learned in an exclusive interview with the head of the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), the agency that cares for these children.
The federal government is required to pursue "prompt and continuous efforts toward family reunification" of unaccompanied migrant children, according to a landmark court settlement, but for thousands of kids in ORR care, that reunion may never happen.
"Unfortunately, I have well over 4,000 of those...