The United States added more than 15,000 unaccompanied minor migrants in its custody

The United States guards more than 15,000 unaccompanied minor migrants who have crossed the border from Mexico, among these more than 5,000 in the United States Customs and Border Protection service and almost 10,500 in accommodations of the Department of Health and Human Services.

On the one hand, a documentation to which the chain has had access CNN confirmed this Saturday that more than 5,000 unaccompanied minor migrants are being held in the United States Customs and Border Protection service, representing an increase of more than half a thousand in recent days.

Among this group there are more than 600 minors who have been detained for more than ten days as well as US media have reported that several children spend an average of 136 hours in this body, which exceeds the 72-hour limit set by US law.

Likewise, the spokesperson for the Department of Health and Human Services, Mark Weber, has confirmed to the chain CBS that nearly 10,500 unaccompanied minor migrants are housed in emergency housing facilities and shelters.

In February, more than 9,400 unaccompanied minors entered the custody of the United States, which was a record, however, it is expected that this figure will be exceeded in the month of March since border workers have indicated that they are with an average of more than 500 unaccompanied minors per day, according to the chain CBS.

On the other hand, the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service (ICE) has declared this Saturday that it will soon begin to place some migrant families in hotels after signing a contract of more than 80 million dollars with a non-profit organization based in Texas, with the objective of “providing temporary shelter and processing services to migrant families,” according to ‘The Hill’.

The Secretary of Homeland Security of the United States, Alejandro Mayorkas, requested last week support from the Federal Agency for Emergency Management (FEMA, for its acronym in English) to “receive, house and transfer” unaccompanied children in the framework from the wave of migrants waiting to cross the southwestern border of the United States.

In a statement, the Department of Homeland Security explained that the government of U.S. “is working 24 hours a day to transfer unaccompanied children from US Customs and Border Protection to the Department of Health and Human Services to place them with a family member or sponsor until their case of immigration”.

The Administration of President Joe Biden has accused former President Donald Trump of “completely dismantling” the asylum system and eliminating existing “legal avenues” for children in vulnerable situations to reach the United States.

The cut in aid to Central American countries has also made him ugly and he recalled that the region was affected at the end of 2020 by two powerful hurricanes. Given this situation, Washington predicts that the number of migrants trying to arrive from Mexico is on the way to reaching unprecedented levels in the last two decades.