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The Southwest Key-Casa Padre Facility in Brownsville, Texas, formerly a Walmart, is one of more than 150 federally contracted shelters for unaccompanied minors that will lose educational and legal programs as a result of the mandate by Health and Human Se

Administration Cuts Education And Legal Services For Unaccompanied Minors

7:25pm June 05, 2019

The Office of Refugee Resettlement is telling migrant shelters to scale back on activities that are "not directly necessary for the protection of life and safety."

The Southwest Key Casa Padre Facility, formerly a Walmart, stands in Brownsville, southern Texas, in June 2018. The facility cares for migrant children.

Third Child Dies In U.S. Government Custody Since December

2:26pm May 02, 2019

by Sasha Ingber

The 16-year-old Guatemalan boy died at a hospital in Texas. Guatemala's government said he had an infection in the frontal lobe of his brain.

Nearly 1,600 teenage migrants are housed at a temporary emergency shelter in Florida run by a for-profit company.

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Inside The Largest And Most Controversial Shelter For Migrant Children In The U.S.

10:39am February 13, 2019

by John Burnett

A temporary shelter has been contracted south of Miami to house more than 2,000 migrant children. It is the nation's only corporate, for-profit migrant youth shelter.

People wait outside the port of entry at Tornillo, Texas, in June 2018. Beyond them is one of the tents that were put up to house unaccompanied migrant children.

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Tent City Housing Migrant Children To Close As Kids Are Released To Sponsors

8:12pm January 04, 2019

by John Burnett

The Department of Health and Human Services confirms the population at Tornillo, Texas, is down from nearly 3,000 adolescents last month to about 1,500. The camp is due to close at the end of January.

Dr. Bert Johansson, an El Paso pediatrician, treats lesions on a migrant man's foot at a makeshift clinic within a local shelter.

It's Easy For Migrants To Get Sick; Harder To Get Treatment

4:59pm December 30, 2018

Two children recently died in Border Patrol custody. In response, volunteers created pop-up clinics and the Department of Homeland Security ordered medical checks on kids in custody.

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Neighbors carry the coffin that contains the body of Jakelin Caal Maquin into her grandparents' home in San Antonio Secortez, Guatemala. The 7-year-old girl died while in the custody of the U.S. Border Patrol.

Pediatricians Voice Concerns About Care Following Two 'Needless' Migrant Deaths

8:50pm December 28, 2018

by Joel Rose

The deaths of two migrant children raise new questions about the quality of medical care at Border Patrol facilities. But pediatricians at the border have been raising these concerns for years.

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8-Year-Old Migrant Boy Dies In Government Custody In New Mexico Hospital

3:37pm December 25, 2018

by Francesca Paris

The Guatemalan child died after midnight on Tuesday in Alamogordo, N.M. He's the second child to die in U.S. Customs and Border Protection custody this month.

Migrants, one carrying a child, who plan to turn themselves over to U.S. border agents, walk up the embankment after climbing over a U.S. border wall from Playas de Tijuana, Mexico, last week. On Tuesday, members of the Hispanic Caucus called for improved

Hispanic Caucus Calls For Investigation Into Migrant Child's Death

8:55pm December 18, 2018

by Vanessa Romo

After touring the two border facilities where Jakelin Caal was detained before she died, the congressional delegation called for better medical facilities and trained personnel at ports of entry.

Buildings that house juveniles and operations on the grounds of Southwest Key Campbell, a shelter for children that have been separated form their parents in Phoenix, in a photograph from June.

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Allegations Of Sexual Abuse Surface At Arizona Shelters For Migrant Children

7:07am August 03, 2018

by Scott Neuman

The shelters, both in Phoenix, are operated by the nonprofit Southwest Key Programs. Allegations involve two former employees accused of sexually abusing children.

People protest immigration separation policies outside Federal Court on Tuesday in El Paso, Texas. Cases of children and families seeking refuge were being heard inside the courthouse.

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Reuniting Families Separated At The Border Proves Complicated

11:46am June 28, 2018

by Nurith Aizenman

A volunteer in Baltimore spends her days trying to reconnect migrant children and parents who have been separated and detained. One story illustrates why it is not necessarily simple.

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