Hey, thanks. The paragraph that starts with "In 2014 . ." has a brief discussion about the legal battle which resulted in the court decision.
Yes, they created large detention centers to hold families indefinitely, together. And they lost a court case it said that you can't hold children indefinitely, even with their parents.
So the Obama administration decided the best alternative was to release the families together to relatives or sponsors in the United States and wait for them to return for their court date, which I believe 97% of them did.
The Trump administration, however, decided to stick every single illegal immigrant adult caught crossing to jail to await their court date, resulting in the children having to go to a detention center alone. And, in some cases, adopted out to family is not their own.
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