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Migrant Children Describe Neglect at Texas Border Facility

Government facilities are overcrowded and five immigrant children have died since late last year after being detained by Customs and Border Protection.

Parents Face Tougher Rules to Get Immigrant Children Back

Thousands of immigrant families are experiencing increasing hurdles to take custody of sons, daughters and relatives who crossed the border.

Federal Agency Says It Lost Track of 1,488 Migrant Children

A Senate subcommittee has found that federal officials for the second time lost track of nearly 1,500 migrant children earlier this year.

Government to Expand, Extend Texas Tent Shelter for Children

A spokesman for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said that the facility will be expanded to 3,800 beds from its initial capacity of 360 beds.

Were Immigrant Teenagers Strapped to Chairs with Bags Over Their Heads?

Immigrant children as young as 14 were forcibly restrained at a Virginia facility, but authorities consider the methods acceptable.

Logic Stages Immigrant Protest At VMAs with Parents, Kids

The children, including some younger ones who appeared intimidated by the crowd, stood in a line as a "human wall."

Senate Study Faults Government Care of Migrant Children

Some 200,000 of these children have entered the U.S. over the past six years.

Texas Lockup is Epicenter of Family Immigration Detention

Currently housing 1,520 mothers and their children, about 10 percent are families who were temporarily separated and then reunited under a “zero tolerance policy” that has since been reversed.

Texas Opens Investigation of Reported Immigrant Child Death

A report that a child died shortly after being released from a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Texas has inflamed the debate over the detention of immigrant families.

Documents: Youth Care Worker Sexually Abused Immigrant Boys

Federal authorities allege that a former youth care worker at a Phoenix-area facility for immigrant youths sexually abused eight teenage boys.

More Than 300 Older Children Split at Border Are Reunited

The Trump administration said it has reunified 364 children ages 5 and older with their families after they were separated at the border.

Trump Administration Asks the Pentagon to House Immigrant Families on Military Sites

Meanwhile, the federal government has not answered questions about how it will comply with an injunction ordering authorities to return children taken from their families under "zero tolerance."