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US reopens child migrant detention facility

An emergency migrant facility for children reopened this week in the US. It's the Carrizo Springs facility in Texas. Government officials say the camp is needed because during the Covid pandemic, places for migrant children have had to cut capacity by nearly half. At the same time, the number of unaccompanied children crossing the border from Mexico has been rising.

But immigration lawyers and advocates question the move back to the Trump-era facility that was the source of protests and controversy. One of those is Linda Brandmiller, a San Antonio-based immigration lawyer who represents unaccompanied minors.

(Picture: Protest against the detention of migrant children in the US, February 2021. Credit: EPA)

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