5-year-old Honduran boy endures month-long separation from family after crossing U.S. border

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Joshua, whose name has been changed to protect his identity, is one of thousands of children and teenagers who have arrived at the U.S. southern border without a parent or legal guardian since January.

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Under U.S. immigration policies, children traveling with anyone other than a parent or legal guardian are immediately separated from the adult they are traveling with. The child is then categorized as an unaccompanied minor and becomes a ward of the federal government. A few weeks later, Joshua was transferred to Cayuga Centers in New York City. Luz said the caseworker told her they moved the boy to New York to make room for more children at the Texas shelter. When he arrived, the new caseworker called Luz asking for her son’s birth certificate, her identification and other information she already had given to the caseworker in Texas.

No government statistic tracks children smuggled across the border by “coyotes” or bad actors versus family members.placed additional requirements on parents or other sponsors after a report revealed that federal officials had released immigrant teenagers to traffickers who made them work in an Ohio egg farm under slave-like conditions.

 

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So glad to see he’s reunited. Hopefully all will be reunited soon.

♪ No e' mi culpa que yo tenga fuego, baby Si aquí yo tengo a todo el mundo crazy Las nena' y los nene' ‘tán llamando Y yo sé qué e' lo que ‘tán buscando ♪ Anitta

Time to prosecute the parents in Honduras for child abandonment and/or deport the children to the parents that birthed them. That's how we handle things in USA. Welcome!

Housed in detention and shelter facilities away from family, these children face severe trauma and, evidence suggests, will likely suffer acute, sustained and even permanent impacts to their minds and bodies.

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