ICE Shifts Strategy, Detaining Thousands of Kids
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🗓️ 9 April 2026
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| 1:01.9 | It's been hard to quantify the number of children who've been detained by ICE since President Trump took office, |
| 1:07.9 | but a new analysis by The Marshall Project, |
| 1:10.8 | a nonpartisan newsroom focused on |
| 1:12.5 | criminal justice, puts that number at more than 6,200. And with few people appearing at the |
| 1:19.1 | border, many of these children are coming from the interior of the country, where they've been |
| 1:24.2 | attending school and been part of communities, in some cases, for years. |
| 1:29.3 | This hour, we take a closer look at how ICE has been carrying out these attentions of children |
| 1:33.4 | and the impact it's having on their lives. |
| 1:36.0 | Joining me is Shannon Heffernan, staff writer at the Marshall Project. |
| 1:40.0 | Shannon, welcome to Forum. |
| 1:41.6 | Thank you so much. |
| 1:43.3 | Also with us, Anna Flag, senior data reporter at the Marshall Project. Anna, really glad to have you, too. Thanks so much. So, Anna, let me start with you. A total of more than 6,200 children is pretty shocking when you realize it's only been little more than a year since Trump took office. So about how many |
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