Migrant kids held in mass shelters 2 SHARES Share it! As the year draws to a close, some 5,400 detained migrant children in the U.S. are sleeping in shelters with more than 1,000 other children. That changed Tuesday when the administration ended a policy requiring every adult in households where migrant children will live to provide the government with fingerprints. Now new litigation is piling up as attorneys fight to get migrant children released. This experience then becomes internalized, with significant psychological consequences,” said Matlow, who recently met with migrant children in custody.

Source: Manila Bulletin December 19, 2018 15:22 UTC