The Biden administration is facing an early challenge about how to deal with migrant youths at the U.S.-Mexico border, putting it on the defensive over the very issue Democrats long used to excoriate the Trump administration for a “kids in cages” approach.
The flow of unaccompanied migrant children taken into custody by federal authorities has risen dramatically of late. More than 1,500 children were apprehended last week, with an additional 300 detained on Sunday, according to government data viewed by CBS News.
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