US Border Patrol ordered to meet standards for housing of migrant children

Migrants are taken into custody by officials at the Texas-Mexico border (Eric Gay/PA)

Migrant children who wait in makeshift camps along the US-Mexico border for the Border Patrol to process them are in the agency’s custody and are subject to a long-standing court-supervised agreement that set standards for their treatment, a judge ruled.

The issue of when the children are officially in Border Patrol custody is particularly important because of the 1997 court settlement on how migrant children in US government custody must be treated.