A final report by a court-ordered monitor reveals that despite improvements in hygiene, food, and medical care at Texas detention centers, U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents still regularly separate children from adult relatives during their custody.
The U.S. still separates some migrant children from their parents while holding them after they cross the border despite broad improvements at detention centers in Texas, according to a court-ordered monitor's final report. The heightened scrutiny of the Border Patrol’s Texas holding facilities is part of broader court-appointed oversight, which President-elect Donald Trump and his allies have criticized.
The report, issued Friday under a monitoring agreement that began in 2022, offers a final glimpse into conditions inside the facilities ahead of Trump's return to office. The report noted improvements in hygiene, food, and medical care but found that U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents routinely separated children from adult relatives during their time in custody. Unlike separations under Trump's zero-tolerance border policy during his first term, those noted in the report were temporary and did not involve sending adults to Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention. At the same time, they were criminally prosecuted and children to shelters for minors.At a facility in Donna, Texas, in September, agents “continued to routinely hold children separately from parents or trusted adults,” the report said. By November, the monitor called regular visits among the family at the same facility “encouraging.” Workers at the facility said they could arrange visits because it was no longer overcrowded. CBP said they issued new guidance on family unity and increased training on detention policies, guidelines and regulations. “Over the past two years, CBP has undertaken extensive measures to significantly expand and enhance its support efforts in both scope and scale for persons in custody, especially vulnerable populations such as children,” the agency said in a statement.Advocates sued the Trump administration in 2019, citing reports of children in federal custody who described overcrowding at CBP facilities in Texas, as well as unsafe and unsanitary condition
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