US detaining more migrant children in hotels despite outcry The Trump administration has sharply increased its use of hotels to detain immigrant children before expelling them from the United States during the coronavirus pandemicHOUSTON -- The Trump administration has sharply increased its use of hotels to detain immigrant children as young as 1 before expelling them from the United States during the coronavirus pandemic despite facing outcry from lawmakers and human-rights advocates. “We were given them with only one instruction, to eat them to lower our temperature,” Verty told the AP last week. Instead, the Trump administration is holding children in hotels or Border Patrol facilities for days, sometimes weeks, before expelling them. In court filings, the Trump administration says children in hotels are given medical care and temperature checks every four hours. As first reported by ProPublica, the government says it expels children detained in hotels only after they test negative for COVID-19.

Source: ABC News August 27, 2020 18:15 UTC