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Trump Administration Plans New Facility To House 3,000 Migrant Kids. Many of Them Lack Legal Representation.

Trump's mass immigration campaign is leaving migrant children alone to navigate a complicated immigration system that was once meant to protect them.

Autumn Billings | 8.21.2026 4:54 PM

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Over 6,200 children have been detained since the beginning of President Donald Trump's second term. But despite ongoing legal challenges over the poor conditions in which detained undocumented children are held, the Trump administration is planning to build a new detention facility capable of holding 3,000 unaccompanied migrant children.

The purpose of the proposed "Emergency Intake Facility," discussed during a virtual roundtable on Tuesday, is to respond to "surges" of unaccompanied children at the southern border, reports The Independent. Surrounded by an 8-foot fence and staffed by "physicians, teachers and other 'humanitarian care' providers," the facility would........

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