A leaked document revealed that 823 unaccompanied migrant children spent more than ten days under the supervision of the U.S. Border Patrol, which is significantly higher than the 72 hours a child should be legally detained, Sunday reported.
Axios reported that the document, which was not viewed by Fox News, indicated that 3,314 migrant children, unaccompanied, had been in custody for more than 72 hours since Saturday. The Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to a Fox News email.
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The report points to a tweet from Senator Chris Murphy, DN.J., after his visit to the southern border. He tweeted that he had just ‘left the border processing facility’ and saw hundreds of children being packed into ‘large, open rooms’.
‘In a corner I fought back tears when a 13-year-old girl sobbed [sic] by a translator incessantly explaining how horrified she was, had to be separated from her grandmother and without her parents, “reads the tweet. He later explained that the children” were no longer separated from their parents at the border (in this case the parents of the girl are in the US). “
The Biden government is trying to manage a growing humanitarian and political challenge on the US-Mexico border that threatens to overshadow its legislative agenda.
Biden told reporters in the White House on Sunday that he would go to the border at some point and that he knew what was going on in the border facilities.
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“Much more, we are doing it now, and making sure we re-establish what previously existed, namely that they can stay in their place and make their case out of their country,” Biden said on the return. of a weekend. by Camp David.
The customs and border protection facilities were very out of order amid a worrying boom in border crossings. The agency announced that in February they had encountered more than 100,000 migrants at the border.
Former President Trump said in a statement on Sunday that Biden had “turned a national triumph into a national disaster” with his handling of the crisis.
“We have proudly given the Biden administration the safest border in history,” the statement said. ‘All they had to do was keep this smooth system on an autopilot. Instead of a few weeks, the Biden government turned a national triumph into a national disaster. water fast. ‘
Fox News, Yael Halon and Associated Press contributed to this report