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   Washington — U.S. Border Patrol agents separated migrant children as   
   young as 8 from their parents for several days this summer to avoid   
   overcrowding in a short-term holding facility, an independent   
   federal court monitor said Friday, raising concerns about the   
   physiological impact of such separations.   
      
   Dr. Paul Wise, the federal court monitor, said he learned during two   
   visits to a U.S. Customs and Border Protection tent facility in   
   Donna, Texas, last month that migrant boys and girls had been   
   separated from their parents and held away from their families, in a   
   different part of the site, for as many as four days.   
      
   Wise, a pediatrician, said Border Patrol officials told him the   
   children and parents were separated for operational reasons, namely   
   to prevent overcrowding in pods housing families. The separated   
   children, Wise added, were kept in pods typically reserved for   
   unaccompanied minors that had more space.   
      
   Most of the migrant children interviewed by Wise and his colleague   
   indicated not knowing of "any protocols that would allow them to   
   request a visit with their parents," he wrote in a 71-page report   
   filed in the federal district court in Los Angeles. Wise's visits to   
   the Donna facility occurred on Aug. 11 and Aug. 30.   
      
   "Separated children included girls separated from mothers and boys   
   separated from their fathers," Wise wrote. "None of the interviewed   
   children had visited with their parents since they were separated,   
   including children who had been separated for 4 days."   
      
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   Wise noted the separations could adversely affect children's mental   
   health. The interviews with separated children at the Donna site, he   
   wrote, "revealed significant emotional distress related to   
   separation, including sustained crying and disorientation" stemming   
   from their inability to communicate with their parents.   
      
   "Separating a child from a parent can be profoundly traumatic for   
   children and can have lasting, harmful effects," he wrote. "While   
   the risk of these effects is elevated among tender aged children and   
   can vary based on a variety of factors, the potential that   
   separating a child and parent while in CBP custody will have   
   serious, deleterious effects remains substantial for all children."   
      
   Border Patrol, a CBP agency, is typically supposed to house migrants   
   for no longer than three days before transporting them to another   
   federal agency, deporting them or releasing them with a court notice   
   or check-in appointments.   
      
   In a statement to CBS News, a spokesperson for CBP said the agency   
   appreciated "Dr. Wise's oversight," noting it was reviewing his   
   report and that it would respond "as appropriate."   
      
      
   The report's findings illustrate the operational and humanitarian   
   challenges faced by Border Patrol due to a recent spike in migrant   
   crossings along the U.S.-Mexico border. While illegal border   
   crossings there dropped to a two-year low in June, they have   
   increased sharply in recent weeks, driven in part by record arrivals   
   of families traveling with minor children.   
      
   The Biden administration, which promised to build a more "humane"   
   system for processing migrants, has sought to manage migration by   
   expanding opportunities for migrants to enter the country legally,   
   while imposing stricter asylum rules for those who enter the country   
   unlawfully. But it has struggled to reduce illegal crossings amid   
   mass displacement in the Western Hemisphere, and its strategy has   
   garnered criticism from Republicans who see it as too lenient, and   
   from progressives, who say it relies too heavily on Trump-like   
   policies, such as the limits on asylum.   
      
   Appointed by the L.A.-based federal judge overseeing the decades-old   
   Flores court settlement, which governs the care of migrant children   
   in U.S. custody, Wise is charged with ensuring Border Patrol   
   facilities are complying with the agreement and providing basic   
   services to minors.   
      
   In his report Friday, Wise said the separations he documented at the   
   Donna tent complex raise "important concerns regarding CBP   
   compliance with the Settlement as well as for the general and   
   potentially long-term well-being of the children affected by this   
   custodial policy."   
      
   But Wise said the Flores agreement gives Border Patrol some   
   "discretion" to separate families if there's an "operational need."   
   He also stressed that the separations he described Friday were   
   markedly different from those that occurred under the Trump   
   administration's infamous "zero tolerance" policy.   
      
      
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