Several Thousand Migrant Children In U.S. Custody Could Be Released Before Christmas
In a surprise policy change, the Department of Health and Human Services plans to speed the vetting of sponsors so that more migrant children can be released from custody.
Updated at 4:59 pm ET
The Department of Health and Human Services is changing the ways it conducts background checks on sponsors of migrant children, a surprise move that will mean the release of hundreds of such children from controversial government-contracted shelters across the country.
The Trump administration had come under fire for holding nearly 15,000 migrant children in 137 shelters.
