Listen: US held record number of migrant kids in custody in 2019
"Reports indicate an unprecedented number of migrant children were held in U. S. government custody over the past year Mike Bauer has more that numbers it's at sixty nine thousand five hundred fifty migrant children held in U. S. government custody that's up forty two percent in this fiscal year from twenty eighteen the report states around four thousand kids are still in government custody with more arriving each week the data shows more kids have been detained away from their parents in the U. S. than any other country a federal judge found this month that the government's policy has caused severe mental trauma the parents and their children and the U. S. government officials were aware of the risks associated with family separation when the"