14,000 children in U.S. Homeland Security custody?

[left-of-center2012]

I just heard that on the German (English language) national-international news on a PBS station.
Said they are kept in 'camps' along the border.

I listen to the 'DW' news 30 minute broadcast M-F.
Gives a world perspctive I don't hear on network TV here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DW_News#Availability

[Ohiogal]

1. Thanks

That's worth a listen

[malaise]

2. Crimes against humanity

That is all

[Stuart G]

7. Yes, simply put, that is it....nt.

[oberliner]

3. It was over 60,000 in 2014

[left-of-center2012]

4. 60,000 children?

[oberliner]

5. Yes

Here's an article from July of 2014 (when it was only 52,000).

Undocumented and Unaccompanied: Facts, Figures on Children at the Border

Excerpt:

The U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency says that apprehensions of undocumented immigrants along the Southwestern U.S. border remain near historic lows, but agents have seen a sharp increase in the number of unaccompanied minors trying to enter the country illegally over the past five years. Over the first 8 1/2 months of fiscal year 2014, 52,193 unaccompanied minors have been taken into custody -- a 99 percent increase over 2013.

In Texas’ Rio Grande Valley alone, where most border crossings now occur, apprehensions have increased 178 percent over last year, with 37,621 unaccompanied minors apprehended so far this year.

Minors from Mexico or Canada who are apprehended at the border can be quickly returned to their home countries in expedited removal proceedings. But those from other countries – mostly teens but sometimes as young as toddlers – are transferred to the custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), part of the Department of Health and Human Services.

https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/immigration-border-crisis/undocumented-unaccompanied-facts-figures-children-border-n152221

[Stuart G]

6. Trump is totally responsible...and he is totally..."nuts" and this is his "permanent legacy"_

It is evil, beyond evil...Fuck Trump!!!

[oberliner]

8. This predates Trump