For the first time, the United States is rejecting unaccompanied minors and summarily expelling them to Mexico and Central America. Reporter Emily Green talked to parents who attempted to send their kids across alone — out of pure desperation and fear, after hoping to enter the US as asylum-seekers but being forced to wait in Mexico, in precarious and dangerous situations.
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