Meanwhile, European Union lawmakers have agreed that undocumented immigrants can be detained for up to eighteen months and face a re-entry ban of up to five years. Amnesty International’s Nicolas Beger said human rights groups had serious concerns over the rules.

Nicolas Beger: “This is a particularly grave concern that Amnesty International has. I mean, Amnesty International principally is against the detention of minors, but this direction, while not prohibiting detention, doesn’t even specify that minors cannot be detained in prisons. We might be seeing twelve-year-olds being detained in adult male prisons without any protection in terms of their status.”