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Migrants In US Custody Describe Life In 'Ice Boxes' And 'Dog Pounds'
During their detention last month in a US Customs and Border Protection facility in Laredo, Texas, Karen and her two young sons were constantly cold. The family, which fled violence in Honduras, slept on a hard floor in a holding cell without mattresses, she said, their clothes still wet from crossing the Rio Grande.
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The Difficult Choice That Reunited Immigrant Families Face In The US
Escaping gruesome violence at the hands of police and gangs in Honduras, a mother and her daughter arrived in the U.S. on June 8 near McAllen, Texas, and turned themselves in to federal agents. They were then separated and held in custody 1,555 miles apart, according to court filings.
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Small Countries Struggle to be Heard at the United Nations
Honduras, terrorized by drug gangs, railed against the world for ignoring the violence and lack of jobs that sends thousands of young Central Americans fleeing north to the United States.
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Another Journalist Shot Dead in Country with Highest Homicides in the World
The body of a television reporter was found in Honduras on Monday a day after he went missing. He had been shot twice.
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Poverty, Violence Drive Central American Exodus to US
Pregnant and with a young child in her arms, 17-year-old Andy Lizette Navarro says she has lost hope for the future in her semi-deserted mountain hamlet deep in rural Honduras, and dreams of America.
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6,000 Mexican Kids Repatriated After Illegal Border Crossings
More than 6,000 Mexican children and teens who crossed unaccompanied and illegally into the United States were repatriated in the first four months of this year, Mexican officials said on Saturday. In nearly all cases, the children had already been arrested at least once, and some more than five times, in attempts to cross the US border. The chil...
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Child Migrants Driven to US by Violence, Poverty
Before 14-year-old Brian Duran set out from central Honduras in mid-April, he heard that child migrants who turned themselves in to the U.S. Border Patrol were being cared for and not deported.
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Migrants In US Custody Describe Life In 'Ice Boxes' And 'Dog Pounds'
During their detention last month in a US Customs and Border Protection facility in Laredo, Texas, Karen and her two young sons were constantly cold. The family, which fled violence in Honduras, slept on a hard floor in a holding cell without mattresses, she said, their clothes still wet from crossing the Rio Grande.
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The Difficult Choice That Reunited Immigrant Families Face In The US
Escaping gruesome violence at the hands of police and gangs in Honduras, a mother and her daughter arrived in the U.S. on June 8 near McAllen, Texas, and turned themselves in to federal agents. They were then separated and held in custody 1,555 miles apart, according to court filings.
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Small Countries Struggle to be Heard at the United Nations
Honduras, terrorized by drug gangs, railed against the world for ignoring the violence and lack of jobs that sends thousands of young Central Americans fleeing north to the United States.
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Another Journalist Shot Dead in Country with Highest Homicides in the World
The body of a television reporter was found in Honduras on Monday a day after he went missing. He had been shot twice.
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Poverty, Violence Drive Central American Exodus to US
Pregnant and with a young child in her arms, 17-year-old Andy Lizette Navarro says she has lost hope for the future in her semi-deserted mountain hamlet deep in rural Honduras, and dreams of America.
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6,000 Mexican Kids Repatriated After Illegal Border Crossings
More than 6,000 Mexican children and teens who crossed unaccompanied and illegally into the United States were repatriated in the first four months of this year, Mexican officials said on Saturday. In nearly all cases, the children had already been arrested at least once, and some more than five times, in attempts to cross the US border. The chil...
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Child Migrants Driven to US by Violence, Poverty
Before 14-year-old Brian Duran set out from central Honduras in mid-April, he heard that child migrants who turned themselves in to the U.S. Border Patrol were being cared for and not deported.
