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9/4/2019

Foster Mom Reflects on Six Years Caring for More Than 100 Central American Children

John Kelly

The Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC) program began in 2003 as part of a recognition by both political parties that when children arrived alone at our border, often in search of safety from circumstances back home, they warranted special protection.

5/3/2017

Set to Graduate High School, Carlos Faces Deportation Order

Bret Schafer

For nearly two years after he arrived in the United States from Guatemala as an unaccompanied minor, Carlos* never saw an immigration attorney, including during an eight-month stint at a border detention center.

7/10/2014

Congress Grills Administration Officials On Unaccompanied Minors

Brian Rinker

A day after the president asked Congress for $3.7 billion dollars to deal with the surge of unaccompanied minors crossing the Mexico-U.S. border, a Senate committee criticized the administration for its lack of accountability and weak deportation numbers.

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