CSPAN Unaccompanied Immigrant Children July 13, 2014
2012 and almost 25,000 in 2013. As of july 6, over 50,000 children have been apprehended and placed in our care in fy 14. To address the associated challenges, a twopronged strategy has been put together. One is to drive down the length of time the children remain in shelters. The other is to expand our shelter capacity. When it comes to time, the children that are in our care, we have made significant progress. Since 2011 when it took 75 days to reduce that time to 35 and are continuing to make progress to move in more quickly. About 1700 beds and since january, and we have also opened a temp...