Border disaster: 823 unaccompanied migrant youngsters held in border patrol custody for over 10 days: report

A leaked document found that 823 unaccompanied migrant children spent more than 10 days in the care of the U.S. Border Patrol, a significantly longer period than the 72 hours a child is legally required to be detained on Sunday, according to the detention report.

Axios reported that the document, which was not viewed by Fox News, indicated that 3,314 unaccompanied migrant children had been detained for more than 72 hours as of Saturday. The Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to an email from Fox News.

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The report pointed to a tweet from Senator Chris Murphy, DN.J., following his visit to the southern border. He tweeted that he had just “left the border processing facility” and seen hundreds of children packed into “large open spaces.”

“I was fighting tears in one corner when a 13-year-old girl was sobbing [sic] to explain uncontrollably through a translator how scared she was to be separated from her grandmother and without her parents, “read the tweet. He later made it clear that the children” are no longer separated from their parents at the border (in in this case the girl’s parents are in the US. “

The Biden administration has sought to address a growing humanitarian and political challenge on the US-Mexico border that threatens to overshadow its legislative agenda.

Biden told reporters at the White House on Sunday that he would go to the border “someday” and that he knows what is going on in the border facilities.

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“Much more, we are in the process of doing this, including making sure we restore what pre-existed. That means they can stay in place and represent their case from their home countries,” Biden said upon return from a weekend at Camp David.

The Customs and Border Protection (CBP) facilities were overwhelmed by the growing number of cross-border commuters. The agency announced it had met more than 100,000 migrants at the border in February.

Former President Trump said in a statement on Sunday that Biden’s handling of the crisis “turned a national triumph into a national disaster”.

“We proudly presented the most secure border in history to the Biden government,” the statement said. “All they had to do was keep this smooth system on autopilot. Instead, the Biden administration turned a national triumph into a national disaster in just a few weeks. Water fast.”

Yael Halon of Fox News and the Associated Press contributed to this report.