Biden Administration Is Still Struggling to Care for Migrant Children

Alberto, a 17-year-old from Guatemala, said he spent a month at the Pecos shelter before he met with a case manager. (Alberto is his middle name, which The Times agreed to use to protect his anonymity.) In a recent interview, arranged by Raices, which is providing him legal services, Alberto described being locked in his two-person room for most of the 40 days he was at Pecos. He said he could not leave on his own. Staff members let him out for meals, modest recreation, English classes and a five-minute phone call every eight days with his aunt, whom he planned to live with when he got to the United States. He said he felt as if he was in a “cage,” a word that has been used to describe the conditions of the Border Patrol holding stations in the past when they were overflowing with migrant children.

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