Some of those children were held for short stints in hotels and office hold rooms that lawyers call 'black boxes' because they can't find them.
The data fight:
Medium
The arrest pace is more than double last year's pace.
The comparison appears in the headline under The Marshall Project byline. No listed source summary states the doubling. 'Last year's pace' is also ambiguous for a term that began in January 2025, and the comparison basis (unique children or arrest events) is not specified.
Low
Since the backlash over the Dilley family detention center, many children have been held for short stints in hotels and office hold rooms.
Hotel and hold-room detention of children is documented by The Marshall Project, the Flores court orders and the Colorado Times Recorder hold-room investigation. The causal link to the Dilley backlash is the desk's own unattributed framing, and 'many' is unquantified.
Medium
Lawyers call the hotels and hold rooms 'black boxes' because they cannot find the children held there.
The story attributes this to lawyers as a group but names no specific speaker. The Marshall Project documents difficulty locating a family held in a hotel, and the ICE locator excludes everyone under 18.