In FY 2019, 5 there were over 470,000 USBP apprehensions of members of family units and 37,906 initial book-ins to ICE’s three Family Residential Centers6 , while ICE directly released approximately 200,000 family unit members from its custody7 as a result of the high volume of CBP apprehensions during this time period. --- Due to the humanitarian crisis caused by the record number of family unit members arriving at the border, CBP was also forced to conduct direct releases of thousands of members of this population who were never turned over to ICE and are not represented in ICE’s release data as a result. Pursuant to the FSA and subsequent court interpretations, pre-final order children accompanied by their parents generally cannot be held in immigration detention for more than 20 days. --- As a result, few migrant families spend time in detention and most of those that do are quickly released into the interior of the United States where they may wait years for their court cases to conclude. As a result, very few members of this population have been removed from the country, even after receiving a final order of removal from a Department of Justice Executive Office for Immigration Review immigration judge (Figure 15).