Children at Risk in US Border Jails

Expand Migrants who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border in El Paso, Texas, in a photo dated May 29, 2019. © 2019 US Customs and Border Protection via AP, File The three-year old before me had matted hair, a hacking cough, muddy pants, and eyes that fluttered closed with fatigue. His only caretaker for the last three weeks in a United States Border Patrol chain-link cage and then a cell…his 11-year old brother. The two boys crossed into the US with an 18-year old uncle late last month, the older brother said, as the toddler passed out asleep on two office chairs. They were separated from their adult…

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