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News Articles: Migrant Children

An agent from the attorney general's office carries evidence collected at Save the Children's headquarters during a raid in Guatemala City on Thursday, April 25, 2024.

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  • Latin America

Guatemalan AG raids Save the Children office over a migrant children rights complaint

Prosecutor Rafael Curruchiche said that the complaint filed by an unidentified foreigner had raised serious concerns because it involved allegations of abuse of children.

April 26, 2024
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The recent graduation ceremony for the Border Patrol's processing coordinator program. The people in these new positions will be assigned to work inside stations to care for individuals whom Border Patrol agents apprehend.

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The Border Patrol's New Migrant Child Care Cadre

An overwhelmed Border Patrol realized it did not have enough officers trained to care for vulnerable detainees in its custody, so it created a new position: processing coordinator.

April 06, 2021
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  • John Burnett
In this file photo, young migrants, whose faces cannot be shown, sit inside a U.S. Customs and Border Protection Facility in Tucson, Arizona.

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Hundreds Of Migrant Children Held In Border Detention For More Than 10 Days

More than 500 migrant children have spent more than 240 hours in the jail-like detention centers at the border as of Thursday, according to a DHS document obtained by NPR.

March 18, 2021
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  • Franco Ordoñez
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told reporters that reuniting families was a "moral imperative" for the Biden administration.

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Biden To Allow Some Separated Migrant Families To Reunite In The United States

"It takes time to build out of the depths of cruelty that the administration before us established," DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said.

March 02, 2021
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  • Franco Ordoñez
Honduran migrants, Ricardo Sr., (left), his son Ricardo Jr., 13, and his cousin Jorge, 16, walk near their home in Texas. When the two teenage boys crossed the border illegally into Texas last month, they turned themselves in to the Border Patrol. They were later escorted to a hotel by armed men in civilian clothes.

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Shadow Immigration System: Migrant Children Detained In Hotels By Private Contractors

The children are held at hotels, instead of shelters, until they can be put on planes to their home countries. This bypasses the normal process that gives children a chance to ask for asylum.

August 20, 2020
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  • Joel Rose and
  • Marisa Peñaloza

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On Second Thought For Monday, July 8, 2019

The new head of the American Academy of Pediatrics is from Fayetteville, Georgia. Meet Dr. Sara Goza and hear about her recent visit to the U.S.-Mexico...

July 08, 2019
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