In ghostly border video, dangers for migrant kids revealed
PETER PRENGAMAN, Associated Press
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Now Playing: Video released Wednesday by U.S. officials shows two Ecuadoran children being dropped by smugglers over a 14-foot-high barrier along the U.S.-Mexico border. The two were checked for injuries and are now in the care of U.S. authorities. (March 31) Video: Associated Press
PHOENIX (AP) A border wall. Smugglers. Small children being dropped into America in the darkness.
A grainy video released Wednesday by authorities its figures visible only in ghostly white outline, its stark storyline dramatic and obvious captures, in mere seconds, the dangers for migrant children at the southern U.S. border.
EXPLAINER: Questions remain about conditions of migrant kids
ELLIOT SPAGAT and NOMAAN MERCHANT, Associated Press
March 31, 2021
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1of30Young minors lie inside a pod at the Donna Department of Homeland Security holding facility, the main detention center for unaccompanied children in the Rio Grande Valley run by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), in Donna, Texas, Tuesday, March 30, 2021. The minors are housed by the hundreds in eight pods that are about 3,200 square feet in size. Many of the pods had more than 500 children in them. The Biden administration on Tuesday for the first time allowed journalists inside its main detention facility at the border for migrant children, revealing a severely overcrowded tent structure where more than 4,000 kids and families were crammed into pods and the youngest kept in a large play pen with mats on the floor for sleeping.Dario Lopez-Mills/APShow MoreShow Less
Xavier Becerra will face influx of immigrant children on top of pandemic in Biden Cabinet job
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Xavier Becerra appears during a Senate Finance Committee hearing on his nomination to be secretary of Health and Human Services on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2021. (Greg Nash/Pool via AP)Greg Nash / Associated Press
WASHINGTON When Xavier Becerra takes over as President Biden’s health and human services secretary, he won’t just be confronting a pandemic. He’ll also be responsible for the care of thousands of immigrant children.
Health and Human Services manages shelters for undocumented immigrant children who arrive in the U.S. by themselves. The California attorney general will take his post in the Cabinet amid a near-record surge of immigrant children coming to the southern border at a time when the shelter network is already near capacity and is constrained by the coronavirus pandemic.
Homeland Security head spars with Congress over border surge
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BEN FOX and NOMAAN MERCHANT, Associated Press
March 17, 2021
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1of11Texas DPS officers gather near a closed walkway to the Dallas convention center before a news conferenced about migrant children detentions Wednesday, March 17, 2021, in Dallas.LM Otero/APShow MoreShow Less
2of11Texas Gov Greg Abbott speaks during a news conferenced about migrant children detentions Wednesday, March 17, 2021, in Dallas.LM Otero/APShow MoreShow Less
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4of11FILE - In this March 31, 2020, file photo, a sign sits in front of the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in downtown Dallas. The U.S. government wants to house up to 3,000 immigrant teenagers at the center as it struggles to find space for a surge of migrant children who have inundated the border and strained the immigration system just two months into the Biden administration.Tony Gutierrez/APShow MoreShow Less