98charlie wrote: “They are not released from station. They have to go to another station after ours. They might be released from there but I dont know for sure.”
How long may children be held in detention?
Are not children in most groups?
My station has not been seeing these large family groups. We do get some families but not the big caravan groups. Children that are with their parents are not separated from them in my facility. If a child has to go to the doctor we take the parent too. At my facility we catch more unaccompanied juveniles than we do family groups. These so called juveniles are used as guides, scouts and drug mules and get voluntarily returned to mexico. That being the case we see the same juveniles a lot.
I dont work detention very often and I am not sure how long a juvenile with a parent can be held. The rules on these types of things have changed the last few months. Generally speaking we dont hold anyone for long. We have to have people processed and on the bus in a certain amount of time.