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Migrant children walk outside the Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children in May in Homestead, Fla. — Wilfredo Lee/AP

August 20, 2019

IWU Professor Finds ‘Shocking’ Conditions At U.S. Immigration Facilities

Kathleen O’Gorman spent her summer on the front lines of America’s broken immigration system.

Thousands of young immigrants, many of them from Central America, have crossed illegally into the United States this year, causing an unprecedented humanitarian crisis on the U.S.-Mexico border. — (John Moore/Getty)

July 24, 2014

Amid Wave Of Child Immigrants, Reports Of Abuse By Border Patrol

Children detainees in Brownsville, Texas — (Eric Gay/AP)

June 29, 2014

Obama Administration Seeks Change In Law To Speed Deportations

Young migrants seen apprehended by the Border Patrol near the Rio Grande in Hidalgo, TX, earlier this year. The next stop for many is either a detention center or deportation. — (Kainaz Amaria/NPR)

June 20, 2014

U.S. To Open Immigrant Family Detention Centers In Response To Influx

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