Changes Coming
Lawmakers were looking to bring about laws to deal with the immigration crisis. They were also looking to have the time period that children can be kept detained longer.
As it stands the time period was 20 days, but lawmakers felt that time should be much longer.
It meant now that if such a bill was passed the length of time families were detained would be much longer.
The obvious would be that a family would now be kept together until the Government saw fit to release them or send them home.
Everyone didn’t agree with the state of the detention centers, but it was possible that some had better conditions than others.
“The facilities are nice,” said Sen. Bill Nelson, on emerging from the military-style compound where he had been refused entry earlier this week. “The question is the reunification of the 2,300 children across the Country separated from their parents. How long will they be detained?”
