According To The UN, The US Has The Highest Rate Of Children

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According to the UN, The US Has The Highest Rate Of Children In Authoritative Custody

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-un-rights-child-idUSKBN1XS1PC

The article is deliberately misleading.

The US held a record number of migrant children in custody in 2019
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nat ... 572376001/

"The nearly 70,000 migrant children who were held in government custody this year".

Obviously, this number skews the "child custody rate".

This is an incredible example of pure fake news cooked up to make Trump look bad, and Reuters has had to go so far as to completely withdraw the story, a very unusual step. The numbers used were from 2015 under Obama!



Story on U.N. study on child detentions withdrawn

GENEVA (Reuters) - A Nov. 18 story headlined “U.S. has world’s highest rate of children in detention -U.N. study” is withdrawn. The United Nations issued a statement on Nov. 19 saying the number was not current but was for the year 2015. No replacement story will be issued.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-un-r ... SKBN1XS1PC

Good grief, now I can't even trust Reuters.

Here's a website to follow – it's about science rather than general news, but it's revealing:

https://retractionwatch.com