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US detaining more migrant children in hotels despite outcry

by Associated Press
| August 27, 2020 11:27 AM

HOUSTON (AP) — The Trump administration has sharply increased its use of hotels to detain immigrant children as young as 1 before expelling them from the United States during the coronavirus pandemic despite facing outcry from lawmakers and human-rights advocates.

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