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24 Feb, 4 tweets, 1 min read
This is the problem with lying to people and suggesting kids are randomly being out in cages because your political opponents are in charge...
There are no cages. There never were.

Unaccompanied minors that cross the border are put in detention facilities temporarily. They are then transferred to ORR custody & put in shelters. ORR then looks 4 sponsors (such as family) to take them in while their cases get adjudicated.
Of course, those facilities aren't perfect, but it's also not easy to maintain facilities for tens of thousands of people at the border. It's even more difficult when you have surges at the border caused by policy anouncements (~2014) or spacing challenges due to a pandemic.
And the activists who yell about "kids in cages" never really provide a viable alternative for what to do with unaccompanied minors. But they only get mainstreamed by the press and others when it's politically beneficial so many assume it is only occurring under a Rep POTUS.

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