In the middle of the night, the Trump administration sends hundreds of undocumented miners every week to Texas tented camp.

The national shame of America's treatment of undocumented children continues to turn into a nightmare. The US government is currently responsible for some 13,000 migrant children, five times more than last year, which represents the largest population of migrant minors in detention. As the time spent in detention has increased from 34 to 59 days, the Department of Health and Social Services, which oversees child care, is struggling to accommodate the growing number of unaccompanied minors. private foster homes or foster homes where they go to school as their case progresses through the system.

This is changing, however, and the New York Times portrays a devastating picture of hundreds of children being arrested each week in the middle of the night to avoid escape attempts and transported to a mass shelter in South Texas. So far, 1,600 people have been sent across the country to Texas, according to the Times, leaving behind a system of care and tuition required and monitored by child protection authorities for a tent city not regulated. Do not demand or provide tuition.

In Kansas shelters in New York, hundreds of migrant children have been woken up in the middle of the night in recent weeks and loaded into buses with backpacks and snacks for their trip to their new home. desert corner in South Texas … [I]In rows of sand-colored tents in Tornillo, Texas, children in groups of 20, separated by sex, sleep in bunks. There is no school: children receive notebooks that they have no obligation to complete. Access to legal services is limited.

The Tornillo camp operates as a small pop-up town, about 35 miles southeast of El Paso, on the Mexican border, with portable toilets. Air-conditioned tents of different sizes are used for housing, recreation and medical care. Originally opened in June for 30 days with a capacity of 400 days, it was extended in September to accommodate 3,800 people and should remain open at least until the end of the year.

"The move to Texas is supposed to be temporary. Rather than sending newcomers there, the government sends children who risk being released sooner and spend less time there – mostly children aged 13 to 17 years considered time. "However, as sponsorship placements are often extended, advocates of immigrants said that it was possible that many children live in the tent for months."