Homestead immigrant shelter

Children line up to enter a tent at the Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children in Homestead, Fla., in February.

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Immigrant Advocates Ask Court To Release Unaccompanied Minors Detained In Florida

11:05pm May 31, 2019

by Richard Gonzales

A court settlement limits how long the government can detain immigrant minors. Administration officials say that facilities that hold the minors are only temporary.

Children line up to enter a tent at the Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children. Once youth turn 18, they are aged out of the children's shelter and are at risk of being placed in an adult detention facility.

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Migrant Youth Go From A Children's Shelter To Adult Detention On Their 18th Birthday

5:18am February 22, 2019

by John Burnett

In two-thirds of over 1,500 cases from April 2016 to February 2018, Immigration and Customs Enforcement put migrant youth into detention when they turned 18, according to government data.

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