In recent weeks, some have been held for as long as 10 days. New agency data obtained by ABC News shows a nearly five-fold increase in the number of children and teenagers being held in border patrol custody for over 240 hours since March 15 -- from 185 to 823 as of Sunday -- despite the legal 72-hour limit. Roma, a town of 10,000 people with historic buildings and boarded-up storefronts in Texas' Rio Grande Valley, is the latest epicenter of illegal crossings, where growing numbers of families and children are entering the United States to seek asylum. Roma, a town of 10,000 people with historic buildings and boarded-up storefronts in Texas' Rio Grande Valley, is the latest epicenter of illegal crossings, where growing numbers of families and children are entering the United States to seek asylum. The seven-day average of daily referrals, most of which come from Border Patrol, was 468 per day while the number of those discharged was 224 per day.
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