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Number of Kids Crossing Border Alone Hits All-Time High in March
U.S. authorities say they picked up nearly 19,000 children traveling alone across the Mexican border in March
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Lawyers Find the Parents of 61 More Separated Migrant Children
Lawyers tasked with reuniting migrant families separated during the Trump administration said in a federal court filing late Wednesday that they have recently contacted the parents of 61 more children, NBC News reports.
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As More Unaccompanied Children Cross Border, Siblings Reflect on Their Journey to US
A pair of siblings were part of the growing number of unaccompanied minors making their way to the U.S. border from Central America.
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Unaccompanied Immigrant Children Make Desperate Journey to US Border
Northern Virginia Bureau Chief Julie Carey reports on services that help immigrant children reunite with their families.
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Homeland Security Chief Defends US Handling of Border Surge
The Biden administration’s head of Homeland Security is defending a policy of allowing unaccompanied children crossing the southwest border to remain in the U.S. while quickly expelling most single adults and families
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Biden Ending Trump Policy That Let DHS Deport Caregivers of Migrant Children
The Biden administration hopes to relieve the strain of thousands of unaccompanied children coming to the southern border by terminating a 2018 Trump-era order that discouraged potential family sponsors from coming forward to house the children
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Record Number of Unaccompanied Migrant Children Held in Facilities Meant for Adults
A record number of unaccompanied migrant children are in Border Patrol custody and shelter beds are scarce, raising fears of a new humanitarian crisis at the southern border.
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Biden Admin. Will Let Separated Migrant Families Reunite Inside US
The Biden administration’s task force for reuniting migrant families separated by the Trump administration will allow separated families “the option of being reunified either in the United States or their county of origin,” Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said at a news briefing on Monday.
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Amid Surge, US Tries to Expedite Release of Migrant Children
With its long-term facilities for immigrant children nearly full, the Biden administration is working to expedite the release of children to their relatives in the U.S. U.S. Health and Human Services on Wednesday authorized operators of long-term facilities to pay for some of the children’s flights and transportation to the homes of their sponsors
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Mexico to Stop Holding Child Migrants in Detention Centers
The United Nations and other organizations are applauding changes to Mexico’s immigration law that would prohibit holding migrant children in immigration detention centers
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The Parents of 666 Migrant Children Separated at the Border Are Still Missing: An ACLU Lawyer Describes the Lasting Trauma
According to the American Civil Liberties Union, more than two-thirds of the 1,000-plus parents separated from their migrant children have yet to be found. Lee Gelernt, the ACLU lawyer leading the court challenge to the Trump Administration’s family separation policy, explains why it has been so difficult to reunite these families and how the separations have caused lasting damage.
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Lawyers Can't Find Parents of 666 Migrant Kids, a Higher Number Than Previously Reported
Lawyers working to reunite migrant families separated by the Trump administration before and during its “zero tolerance” policy at the border now believe the number of separated children for whom they have not been able to find parents is 666, higher than they told a federal judge last month, according to an email obtained by NBC News. About one third…