Yes, their stay in the US is mostly for the lag time that it takes to get them back. Weirdly, this can take 6 months to a year due to judiciary and bureaucratic nonsense.

I remember because MSNBC did a story about "unaccompanied minors being exiled by the Trump administration after separating them from their parents". It was actually about how a mom stole a kid from her husband and fled to the US. She was arrested, the kid was sent to an immigration facility. The family court of the host country was called, and they sorted out the domestic situation. The US government then bought the kid a plane ticket on a specially designated flight that would fly back into the host country where the grand-parents would be waiting to pick the kid up.

MSNBC reported on all of this, assuming their readers are illiterate and would get bored by the 3rd paragraph, and just spent most of the early part of the article reporting how the mother "didn't know where her kid would end up" despite the grandparents being required to pick the kid up from the airport.

Yes, but that process can take place in either jurisdiction once it is established.

Yes, absolutely. The only issue is that immigration cases with children can still be stupid, so you never know if the host country is going to demand the children back, or refuse to take them.

If they don't have any guardians, you basically just need to keep them in child-designated immigration holding facilities. These were the ones where AOC was claiming they were "jails" and that "children drank out of the toilets" because the toilets had a built in sink feature for washing hands. They are a bit spartan, but the staff do keep the kids safe, there are recreational centers, and there's plenty of food. Not the greatest place for boy or girl to hang out, but it's a safe & protective environment. They shouldn't need to be moved around at all once there.

Yes, their stay in the US is mostly for the lag time that it takes to get them back. Weirdly, this can take 6 months to a year due to judiciary and bureaucratic nonsense.

I remember because MSNBC did a story about "unaccompanied minors being exiled by the Trump administration after separating them from their parents". It was actually about how a mom stole a kid from her husband and fled to the US. She was arrested, the kid was sent to an immigration facility. The family court of the host country was called, and they sorted out the domestic situation. The US government then bought the kid a plane ticket on a specially designated flight that would fly back into the host country where the grand-parents would be waiting to pick the kid up.

MSNBC reported on all of this, assuming their readers are illiterate and would get bored by the 3rd paragraph, and just spent most of the early part of the article reporting how the mother "didn't know where her kid would end up" despite the grandparents picking the kid up.

Yes, but that process can take place in either jurisdiction once it is established.

Yes, absolutely. The only issue is that immigration cases with children can still be stupid, so you never know if the host country is going to demand the children back, or refuse to take them.

If they don't have any guardians, you basically just need to keep them in child-designated immigration holding facilities. These were the ones where AOC was claiming they were "jails" and that "children drank out of the toilets" because the toilets had a built in sink feature for washing hands. They are a bit spartan, but the staff do keep the kids safe, there are recreational centers, and there's plenty of food. Not the greatest place for boy or girl to hang out, but it's a safe & protective environment. They shouldn't need to be moved around at all once there.

Yes, absolutely. The only issue is that immigration cases with children can still be stupid, so you never know if the host country is going to demand the children back, or refuse to take them.

If they don't have any guardians, you basically just need to keep them in child-designated immigration holding facilities. These were the ones where AOC was claiming they were "jails" and that "children drank out of the toilets" because the toilets had a built in sink feature for washing hands. They are a bit spartan, but the staff do keep the kids safe, there are recreational centers, and there's plenty of food. Not the greatest place for boy or girl to hang out, but it's a safe & protective environment. They shouldn't need to be moved around at all once there.