AFP, GENEVA, SwitzerlandMore than 100,000 children are being held in migration-related detention in the US, often in violation of international law, the UN said on Monday. However, Nowak said that did not absolve US President Donald Trump’s administration of wrongdoing with respect to the detention of migrant children at the southern border with Mexico. “Migration-related detention for children can never be considered as a measure of last resort or in the best interest of the child,” Nowak told reporters in Geneva, Switzerland. “Separating children, as was done by the Trump administration, from their parents, even small children, at the Mexican-US border ... constitutes inhuman treatment for both the parent and the children,” Nowak said. “There are still quite a number of children that are separated from their parents, and neither the children know where the parents are nor the parents know where their children are,” he said.

Source: Taipei Times November 19, 2019 15:56 UTC