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Five unaccompanied migrant children were found along the U.S.-Mexico border on Sunday, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection. A Border Patrol agent responded to a call from a Maverick County constable about young children, and found five girls — a 7-, 3- and 2-year-old from Honduras and a 5-year-old and 11-month-old from Guatemala. Smugglers left the girls near the Rio Grande, according to Guatemala’s Foreign Ministry. CBP said the children didn’t require medical attention and were transferred to the Department of Health and Human Services on Tuesday. The farmer who made the first call said he believes if he didn’t find the girls, he doesn’t think they would survived. CNN
In other national immigration news…
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ACLU Report Reveals COVID-19’s Toll in Immigration Jails
A new report from the American Civil Liberties Union details how the pandemic has affected detainees in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody. According to Immigration and Customs Enforcement statistics, 14,057 detainees have tested positive for COVID-19 throughout the past year. And as of Sunday, 1,906 of 16,700 detainees currently in detention are being monitored for COVID-19. The ACLU filed more than 40 lawsuits throughout the pandemic to get detainees released from unsafe conditions. The group secured the release of 800 people. But the ACLU noted the number of people ICE is detaining has recently grown, and called on ICE to release detainees and improve their conditions. Mother Jones
Shooting Happens Outside Immigration Building in Orlando
On Monday morning, Bonnie Brandão went to Orlando’s U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services building to take her citizenship test. But her “nervous and exciting day” took a turn when she heard a popping sound followed by people screaming. “We thought somebody was coming inside to shoot the place up,” Brandão said. Outside the building, a man Alberto Dominguez-Ortiz was walking with a woman when a vehicle pulled up and a person inside shot him. The alleged shooter, Alberto Rivero-Milian, was the ex-husband of the man Alberto Dominguez-Ortiz was walking with. Dominguez-Ortiz was arrested after a short car chase in Kissimmee. Orlando Sentinel
Wisconsin Assembly Wants to Send Support to Secure Border
Wisconsin’s Republican-led Assembly passed a resolution calling on Gov. Tony Evers (D) to send aid to the southern border and help secure it by enforcing immigration laws. Assembly Majority Leader Jim Steineke and President Pro Tempore Tyler August, Republicans who both recently visited the border, said the issue is a national humanitarian crisis that requires Wisconsin’s participation. All of the assembly’s 35 Democrats meanwhile opposed the resolution, which is not binding, meaning Evers doesn’t need to take any action. The Associated Press
Republican Governors Call for Control Over “the Crisis at the Southern Border”
A group of 19 Republican governors signed a joint letter calling for President Joe Biden to “control the crisis at the southern border.” “The crisis is too big to ignore and is now spilling over the border states into all our states,” the governors, many of whom represent states far from the border, wrote. In a recent poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, only 43 percent of those who surveyed approved of how Biden was handling immigration, while 54 percent disapproved. Biden has reversed many of former President Trump’s immigration policies, and has since seen a surge of migrants arrive at the border. ABC4
