Ms. Becker further remarked that in 2019, Mexico detained over 50,000 child migrants, mostly from Honduras and Guatemala, but after years of advocacy by the International Detention Coalition and others, a new law took effect in Mexico banning the detention of migrant children. She commented that in California, there was many as 10,000 children held in prisons across the State where they experienced violence and education was inadequate, but now the State is closing these prisons down and investing 200 million USD to local rehabilitation programmes, putting money into counselling, education, and recreation underlying that alternative to deprivation of liberty does exist.
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