As of Sunday, there were 3,130 children under the supervision of CBP, an agency that did not want to care for children for long periods of time, which indicated a drop from the peak – 5,767 on March 28 – since the government began providing data, indicating progress in the relief of border patrol stations.
The average time in CBP supervision for unaccompanied migrant children is still well above the legal limit of 72 hours, although it hangs around 122 hours, according to data obtained by CNN.
Over the past few days, officials have increasingly displaced children from CBP supervision and under the supervision of the Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees a shelter network for migrant children and has opened a series of pop-up websites for domestic children until they can be released to a sponsor, such as a parent or family member, in the United States.
As a result, the number of children in HHS supervision increased: as of Sunday, there were 18,027 children in HHS supervision.
“What we do every day is, ‘OK, where are we? How many people got in there today? Where are they going? How many beds do we have? What are any blocks in the system to move children out of the system? to place their parents? ” a White House official told CNN earlier. “It’s a million little things that contribute to increasing this throughput of children.”
The daily cost per child is more than twice the amount of the department’s already established shelter program – about $ 775 a day, compared to about $ 290 a day – according to figures shared with CNN. HHS cites the need to develop facilities and hire staff over a short period of time, among other reasons why temporary shelters are more expensive.