Although the number of children who were forced to leave their families decreased due to the reactions they received, the number of immigrant children arrested at the border increased unexpectedly.
According to reports from the US Department of Health and Human Services, the number of immigrant children arrested at the border has increased to an unprecedented level, despite a decrease in response to the number of children who left the US after entering the United States.
The immigrant child detention centers across the United States had 2,500 children in May last year.
This number has now reached 12,800. While the number of children taken into custody increased, the number of children delivered to their families or sponsors did not increase as well. It is stated that the majority of the detainees are children who are passing the United States by the end of the United States, while others are adolescents from Central American countries.