Migrants

When unaccompanied minors are picked up at the border they must be housed for 20 days and then placed in foster care. More than 100,000 children have been placed since 2016 and only 4% are deported. The rest remain and are on track to citizenship which puts them ahead of the dreamers. This is all part of the 1997 Flores Settlement. This has led to various adults either bringing their own children with them or finding unaccompanied minors and claiming them as children. The current facilities to handle this influx is maxed out and there is no place for these people to live. The cost is $600 per day per child and more for families and 15,000 children are currently being held at a cost of $9 million dollars per day. In FY 2018, the federal government is set to spend $3.076 billion on DHS Custody Operations, or $8.43 million per day on immigrant detention.