child migrants

The new rule provides for the indefinite detention of children with their parents in federal immigration facilities pending resolution of their immigration proceedings.

As some 7,000 mostly Honduran migrants continue their journey northwards toward the United States, governments must prioritise the needs of migrant children when it comes to applying immigration laws and procedures, said the UN Children’s Fund.

As countries across Europe and North Africa seek to curtail irregular migration, children risk violence, abuse, exploitation and detention.