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A day in court at the Texas border: “The mothers don’t know where their kids are"

Jun 19, 2018
In March, the Trump administration ordered prosecutors to charge every person illegally crossing the border and separate children traveling with their parents. The children are kept at detention centers.
A former Walmart Supercenter now called Casa Padre is being used as a migrant children's shelter, in Brownsville, Texas.
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