US migrant detention centres are overcrowded and families are still being separated
ABCIt has fake grass, a pop-up medical clinic and a soccer pitch. "We do not look at it as a detention centre," said operations section chief Philip Gill from emergency management non-profit BCFS, which runs the centre for the US Office of Refugee Resettlement. He has said that "much can be learned" from Australia's immigration policies, which place asylum seekers in offshore detention centres and emphasise a preference for high-skilled migrants. The Trump administration upped detention measures roughly two years into office, when the President officially ended his predecessor Barack Obama's "catch and release" policy. is the most pressing question asked by the young people, case manager Jose Rodriguez told me in the facility's "call centre", where the children can come to phone family at home or contacts in the US.
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