The federal judge who has enforced a longstanding requirement that migrant children be released from detention within 20 days seems to have turned philosophical. That ruling (which…
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Gee, Dolly, What Are You Going To Do About All Those Kids?
Southern Door Swings Open for Cheap Child Labor
Failing to turn back unaccompanied minors at the border, the Biden administration is enabling an influx of cheap labor into the U.S. More than three-quarters of Unaccompanied…
Biden Administration Caught In a Child Migrant Controversy of Its Own Making
The Biden administration found itself in a predictable pickle in early February when rising numbers of unaccompanied minors were arriving at the Southwest border, in large…
How Illegal Migration Fuels Child Labor in American Suburbia
In a November 19 story – co-published with Mother Jones and El País – ProPublica Illinois’ Melissa Sanchez shines a light on illegal alien child labor…
Abandonment Issues Haunt Children at the Border
While questions concerning the whereabouts of parents of 545 unaccompanied migrant children grabbed headlines last month, the rescue of a dozen minors abandoned at the border…