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Report: U.S. Holding Immigrant Toddlers in Hotels for Weeks Before Deportation

HeadlineJul 23, 2020

The Associated Press reports the Trump administration has been detaining immigrant children and toddlers as young as 1 year old in hotels, sometimes for weeks at a time, and then deporting them. Immigrant rights attorneys say this violates federal anti-human-trafficking laws that demand unaccompanied immigrant children be sent to government shelters or placed with sponsors. A private contractor working with ICE has reportedly been taking children to three Hampton Inn & Suites hotels in Arizona and at the Texas-Mexico border. The hotels have reportedly been used at least 200 times.

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