Biden's Dilemmas, Part 2: Children at the Border

<p>The number of unaccompanied children arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border is growing — and, with it, anxiety in the Biden administration.</p><p>Newer concerns have mixed with longstanding ones to create a situation at the border that could become untenable.</p><p>Today, in the second part of our series on what we’re learning about the Biden administration, we look at the president’s response to the growing number of minors at the border.</p><p>Guest: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/zolan-kanno-youngs">Zolan Kanno-Youngs</a>, a homeland security correspondent based in Washington for The New York Times. </p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/newsletters/signup/NTTD?smid=pc-thedaily">Sign up here</a> to get The Daily in your inbox each morning. And for an exclusive look at how the biggest stories on our show come together, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/newsletters/the-daily?module=inline">subscribe to our newsletter</a>. </p><p>Background reading: </p><ul><li>In recent months, hundreds of migrant families have been released into the United States by Border Patrol agents. Thousands more are hoping for a chance to enter<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/06/us/migrants-border-coronavirus-san-diego.html?smid=pc-thedaily"> under looser policies</a>.</li><li>President Biden is trying to untangle an interlocking web of Trump-era border restrictions, leading for now to<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/us/politics/biden-border-migrants.html?smid=pc-thedaily"> disparate treatment of migrants and rampant confusion</a>.</li><li>The Biden administration has said it will<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/04/us/migrant-families-biden-plan.html?smid=pc-thedaily"> shorten the detention of migrant families</a>. Researchers say children can show symptoms of trauma after spending long periods in custody.</li></ul><p>For more information on today’s episode, visit <a href="http://nytimes.com/thedaily?smid=pc-thedaily">nytimes.com/thedaily</a>. Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next w