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unaccompanied minors crossing border

A migrant traveling to the border city of Nuevo Laredo, Mexico in 2006. This fiscal year, US officials have detained more than 52,000 unaccompanied minors and 39,000 women with children along the US-Mexico border.
Global Politics
These two Guatemalans say they had little choice but to head north
Eight-year-old Susan Cruz enjoying her first Christmas in the United States in 1978.
Conflict & Justice
What does it take for a Salvadoran girl to make her way in America?