The entire policy of this administration is to separate families and children and to make conditions so onerous as to discourage further immigration and asylum seeking. They themselves have stated that so where you get these ideas is beyond me.
The immigration rate is also at historic lows so again where you get your news seems to be a major source of some of this disconnect.
They have also recently removed, education and recreation so im not sure what videos you are watching but you might want to do a bit more resaserch
The administration wants to send migrant families caught crossing the border illegally to a family detention center for as long as it takes for their cases to be decided.
www.nytimes.com
"Administration officials said that the effort to allow families to be detained indefinitely was an attempt to avoid having to either separate families or release them while they waited for their cases to be heard."
Homeland Security is now in talks with the Defense Department to care for the overflow on U.S. military bases, according to a DHS official and two other U.S. officials.
www.nbcnews.com
"Daily border crossings by undocumented migrants hit 13-year highs
Daily attempts by undocumented immigrants to cross into the United States from Mexico over the past month surpassed daily averages not seen since fiscal year 2006, according to Customs and Border Protection data obtained by NBC News."
The agency in charge of taking care of minors said it is running out of funds to continue housing migrant children detained by the U.S. near the southern border
www.cbsnews.com
"The Trump administration on Wednesday moved to end all educational, recreational and legal services offered to migrant children in U.S. custody, warning the public and Congress that
it is running out of funds to take care of unaccompanied minors detained near the southern border.
Citing a "tremendous strain" on the agency fueled by the
unprecedented flow of migrants from Central America heading towards the U.S.-Mexico border, the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), an office within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) charged with taking care of migrant minors, said it was winding down programs "not directly necessary for the protection of life and safety" of unaccompanied children in its custody."
A three-judge panel questioned whether government lawyers sincerely believed they could describe the temporary detention facilities as “safe and sanitary.”
www.texastribune.org
"But although the conditions that were the subject of the 2017 ruling date to the Obama administration, the testy court exchange comes as the Trump administration confronts an unprecedented migrant surge that has overwhelmed facilities and caused serious health and safety risks within them...
Gee ruled in June 2017 that these Obama-era conditions violated a 1997 settlement agreement requiring that immigrant children in the government’s custody be housed in “safe and sanitary” conditions and that the government maintain “concern for the particular vulnerability of minors.”
Your research sucks!
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