The Biden administration has held meetings in recent days to discuss detaining migrant families who cross the border illegally
who crossed the border illegally, those people said. Reversing the Biden administration’s current policy and detaining migrant families has been one of the proposals discussed.
If the administration moves forward with detaining families, they would be held for a limited number of days for processing only, one of the people said, and would comply with a decades-old court settlement governing the detention of immigrant children that has generally barred the government from detaining families for longer than about 20 days.
Asylum cases typically take far longer to decide. Cases of asylum seekers not being held in jail are pending in federal immigration court for an average of about 4.2 years, according to the Transactional Records Clearinghouse at Syracuse University.
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