Protect the Most Vulnerable

Op-ed U.S. News & World Report Wendy Young

The United States must not make changes to the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008. This anti-trafficking law contains important protections for unaccompanied immigrant…...

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The Children of the Drug Wars

Opinion The New York Times Sonia Nazario

CRISTIAN OMAR REYES, an 11-year-old sixth grader in the neighborhood of Nueva Suyapa, on the outskirts of Tegucigalpa, tells me he has to get out…...

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Immigrant Children

Letter to the Editor The New York Times Wendy Young

The United States is experiencing a child migration emergency that calls for an entirely new system to govern the way we treat children who are…...

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Children Alone and Lawyerless in a Strange Land

Op-ed The Wall Street Journal Wendy Young & Julie Myers Wood

One of us is a former head of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement; the other is a longtime immigrant-rights advocate. This may make us unlikely…...

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Esther Cepeda: Young, alone — and in court

Op-ed The Washington Post Esther Capeda

Last week, a federal judge in California ordered immigration courts in three states to provide legal representation for immigrants with mental disabilities who are in…...

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Child Migrants, Alone in Court

Opinion The New York Times Sonia Nazario

BELKIS RIVERA, 14 years old, sat in the Los Angeles immigration courtroom, in a black coat and purple scarf, shaking with fear. When Belkis was…...

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Letter to the editor: Kids used as bait

Letter to the Editor Wendy Young

As a nation that defines itself by its family values, it is unconscionable that the United States continues to implement our immigration laws in a way…...

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