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Children Arriving in the United States Need Strong Safeguards

Health and Human Rights Journal

Apr 19, 2022
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Migration to the US has shifted significantly over the last few decades. Once primarily adult, usually male, and overwhelmingly from Mexico, the people crossing the southwestern US border are now often women travelling with children or on their own, unaccompanied children. The needs of migrant children have too often been overlooked—and at times callously disregarded.  Children and families have been subjected to abusive conditions and other trauma.  Warren Binford and Michael Garcia Bochenek suggest creation of a Federal Children's Ombuds Office to help fill the accountability gap, if it is given the authority to investigate violations of children’s rights by all federal agencies, including CBP, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and their contractors.  Read article>>

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