A new U.N. study on the treatment of children released today ranks the United States #1 on the list of countries with the highest child incarceration rate in the world.

This means devoting more resources to hire more asylum officers and immigration judges to reduce administrative backlog. It also means putting an end to family separations and indefinite detentions. In the long term, we need compassionate, comprehensive immigration reform and a foreign policy that doesn’t contribute to the global refugee crisis.

The passage of the Real I.D. Act stripped away many safeguards and imposed credibility determinations, allowing personal biases of immigration officers and judges to factor in.