Hopes were crushed when some illegal migrants were deported back to Mexico after spending most of their savings to pay human smugglers to bring them to the U.S.
President Joe Biden has been undoing many of the Trump-era immigration policies, such as halting the border wall's construction and suspending the "Remain in Mexico" program.
After receiving backlash from the "kids in cages" issue, the Biden administration is now working to expedite the migrant children's release to their relatives in the United States.
The Biden administration is detaining more than 700 unaccompanied migrant children in custody at the U.S.-Mexico border. The move caused criticisms from various groups.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, also known by her initials, AOC, has slammed President Joe Biden's administration after news broke out that it was reopening a detention facility for migrant children in Texas.
The administration of President Joe Biden has expressed intent to reopen a Texas detention center to accommodate an increase in unoccupied foreign children at the southern U.S. border.
A federal appeals court on Friday allowed border authorities to use an emergency policy under former President Donald Trump to quickly return unaccompanied migrant children apprehended at the US-Mexico border without an asylum interview or a court hearing.
U.S. District Judge Dolly Gee has ordered the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to free migrant children held at the country's three family detention centers for more than 20 days.
Hillary Clinton said in an interview Tuesday that unaccompanied migrant children should be sent back to their home countries. The number of migrant children crossing the border unaccompanied has risen dramatically over the past year.
