US won't expel migrant children detained in hotel under Covid measures

However, the Trump administration will not stop using hotels to detain children

The Trump administration has agreed not to expel a group of immigrant children it detained in a Texas hotel under an emergency declaration citing the coronavirus and will instead allow them to seek to remain in the US, the administration said Monday.

The move comes days after The Associated Press first reported on the US government's secretive practice of detaining unaccompanied children in hotels before rapidly deporting them during the virus pandemic.

Government data obtained by AP showed the US had detained children nearly 200 times over two months in three Hampton Inn & Suites hotels in Arizona and two