Migrant children - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Mon, 04 Mar 2019 03:30:57 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Migrant children - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Thousands of migrant children suffer sexual abuse in government custody https://cathnews.co.nz/2019/03/04/migrant-children-federal-sexual-abuse/ Mon, 04 Mar 2019 06:55:07 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=115544 United States federal documents show thousands of migrant children have been exposed to abuse while in government custody. The U.S. government has received more than 4,500 complaints over the last four years alleging that children who are under government custody because of immigration matters faced sexual abuse. Read more

Thousands of migrant children suffer sexual abuse in government custody... Read more]]> United States federal documents show thousands of migrant children have been exposed to abuse while in government custody.

The U.S. government has received more than 4,500 complaints over the last four years alleging that children who are under government custody because of immigration matters faced sexual abuse. Read more

Thousands of migrant children suffer sexual abuse in government custody]]> 115544 Detained migrant children numbers skyrocket https://cathnews.co.nz/2018/09/17/detention-migrant-children/ Mon, 17 Sep 2018 07:51:04 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=111926 The overall number of detained migrant children in the US has exploded to the highest ever recorded. Population levels at US federally contracted shelters for migrant children have quietly shot up more than five-fold since last summer, according to data obtained by The New York Times. So far this month 12,800 children were being detained. Read more

Detained migrant children numbers skyrocket... Read more]]> The overall number of detained migrant children in the US has exploded to the highest ever recorded.

Population levels at US federally contracted shelters for migrant children have quietly shot up more than five-fold since last summer, according to data obtained by The New York Times.

So far this month 12,800 children were being detained. There were 2,400 such children in custody in May 2017. Read more

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