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    The Border Patrol's New Migrant Child Care Cadre

    An overwhelmed Border Patrol realized it did not have enough officers trained to care for vulnerable detainees in its custody, so it created a new position: Processing Coordinator.
    by John Burnett Apr 06, 2021 3 minutes
    The recent graduation ceremony for the Border Patrol's Processing Coordinator program. The people in these new positions will be assigned to work inside stations to care for the individuals Border Patrol agents apprehend.

    The Border Patrol is overwhelmed by the numbers of unaccompanied migrant children in its custody — on Sunday, there were 4,699 sleeping in austere conditions for days on end. But there's help on the way. Customs and Border Protection is, for the first time, fielding teams of social service workers to relieve some of the agents from handing out mattresses and Pampers.

    Last Friday, the sprawling Border Patrol Training Academy in Artesia, N.M., graduated 39 young men and women. But they

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