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Central American asylum seekers, including a Honduran girl, 2, and her mother, are taken into custody near the U.S.-Mexico border in June in McAllen, Texas.

Child Migrants

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These Young People Were Told They Could Stay in the U.S. They Might Get Deported Anyway.
Some 26,000 immigrant children who claim abuse, neglect or abandonment must remain effectively undocumented for years, despite being eligible for green cards.
The Cayuga Centers in Harlem, pictured here in 2018, places unaccompanied children in foster-care families and has reported two staff members testing positive for COVID-19.
Coronavirus April 10, 2020
Migrant Children Still Face Speedy Deportation Hearings in COVID-19 Hotspots
Trump administration presses on with court proceedings, rebuffing pleas from attorneys and advocates.
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Recent undocumented border crossers arrive at a bus station in McAllen, Texas, after they were processed and released by U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
News July 1, 2018
A Father and Child Disunion
One migrant’s encounter with “zero tolerance."
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An unaccompanied boy from Guatemala is processed at the Customs and Border Protection Rio Grande Valley sector headquarters in Texas, in 2013.
News May 1, 2018
Trump’s Quiet War on Migrant Kids
How the administration is turning child protection into law enforcement
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