.@AP investigative reporters @garanceburke and @mendozamartha teamed up with @frontlinepbs and asked: What happens to migrant kids when they’re put in US custody? (1/6)
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That’s almost 70,000 kids, scattered across 170 programs in 23 states. The reporters asked: What does it feel like in the detention centers? The residential shelters? The children’s answers: Scared. Lonely. Angry. Hurt. “There was despair everywhere,” one teen said. (3/6)
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The investigation found Trump administration policies led to family separations — which are still happening — and make it harder for parents to reunite with their own children. (4/6)
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Experts say locking up kids is traumatic and can impact them for the rest of their lives. Some suffer anxiety. Depression. Heart disease. Even cancer. (5/6)
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This fall, about 4,000 migrant kids are still in government custody, away from their families. More arrive every week. Watch more on
#FrontlinePBS tonight. (6/6) http://apne.ws/oeM2dOjShow this thread
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So is it a crisis now?
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How many thousands of USA dollars per migrant on the paper & in cage? The business for private corporations is booming!!
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Everyone in the North America is a an illegal alien apart from the Native American Indians. The fact that some arrived earlier than others does not give them any historic right what so ever. The only ones who have a historic saying to who is legal on their land are the Natives.
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No this isn’t the America I know
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Speak to the parents who brought them.
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