The parent's strategy is you can't send kids back to a country if they don't even have a paper trail to know where to send them.
An overview of the legal authorities and policies that govern the care of unaccompanied kids, as well as the facilities where they're housed while in custody.
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The treatment of migrant children taken into custody along the U.S.-Mexico border has become a focal point of the national debate over immigration policy.
Over the past decade, Democratic and Republican administrations have struggled to adequately and safely process large numbers of
unaccompanied minors, who have special legal protections under U.S law.
Since 2013, U.S. authorities along the southern border have taken into custody more than 445,000 unaccompanied children, including 72,000 in 2014 and
80,000 in 2019, according
to Department of Homeland Security data.