Immigration Detention: Asylum-Seeking Migrants and Row Saturday

immigration detention: The bipartisan group also endorsed changes to an agreement that generally bars the government from keeping children in immigration detention for more than 20 days, according to Toronto Star. In this Friday, April 12, 2019 photo, a U.S. Border Patrol agent helps migrants out of a van at the Gospel Rescue Mission in Las Cruces, N.M. The U.S. Border Patrol agents dropped off asylum-seeking migrants in New Mexico's second most populous city for the second day in a row Saturday, April 13, 2019 prompting Las Cruces city officials to appeal for donations of food and personal hygiene items. In a draft report unveiled Tuesday, a committee of the Homeland Security Advisory Council called on the Trump administration to immediately establish three to four regional migrant processing centres along the southwest border with Mexico. The migrants were being temporarily housed at a homeless shelter, a city recreation center and a campus of social service agencies. There is a real crisis at our border, say the authors, who include immigration experts, lawyers, former federal officials and a medical doctor. The Las Cruces Sun News via AP / Blake Gumprecht The report comes as border officials say they are struggling to cope with an influx of Central American families, with U.S. Border Patrol apprehending a record-setting 53,000 families in March. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.