{"id":772,"date":"2011-04-29T12:36:38","date_gmt":"2011-04-29T17:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bnhr.org\/?p=772"},"modified":"2011-04-29T12:36:38","modified_gmt":"2011-04-29T17:36:38","slug":"report-no-one-protects-migrant-children-at-the-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bnhr.org\/report-no-one-protects-migrant-children-at-the-border\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: No One Protects Migrant Children At The Border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bnhr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/ScaredChildImmigrationTexas.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-773\" title=\"ScaredChildImmigrationTexas\" src=\"http:\/\/bnhr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/ScaredChildImmigrationTexas.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>The Texas Observer published a story this week about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.texasobserver.org\/lalinea\/migrant-children-on-the-border-not-protected-by-either-country\">plight<\/a> of migrant children on the border. A report released by the nonprofit Appleseed and its network of public justice centers details the failure of both the U.S. and Mexico to protect the most vulnerable migrants: unaccompanied minors. From the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At least 15,000 unaccompanied children are apprehended every year by  U.S. border agents. In 2008, the U.S. Congress passed a law called the  William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection and Reauthorization  Act, mandating that every Mexican child who crossed illegally without\u00c2\u00a0 a  parent be interview by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents. The  agents were tasked with looking for three things: 1) The child is not a  potential victim of trafficking, 2) Has no possible claim to asylum and  3) Can and does voluntarily agree to return home.<\/p>\n<p>The two-year  study finds, however, that border agents are not fulfilling these  duties. And it describes in detail how children at the U.S.-Mexico  border are being sent back to Mexico with little regard for their well  being or whether they have a credible asylum claim in the United States.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the rest of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.texasobserver.org\/lalinea\/migrant-children-on-the-border-not-protected-by-either-country\">article<\/a> at the Texas Observer.<\/p>\n<p>Appleseed report: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.texasobserver.org\/lalinea\/migrant-children-on-the-border-not-protected-by-either-country\/item\/download\/89\">Children at the Border: The Screening, Protection and Repatriation of Unaccompanied Mexican Minors<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Learn more: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.texasobserver.org\/cover-story\/children-of-the-exodus\">What becomes of kids who are deported without their families?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Texas Observer published a story this week about the plight of migrant children on the border. A report released by the nonprofit Appleseed and its network of public justice centers details the failure&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bnhr.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bnhr.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bnhr.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bnhr.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bnhr.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bnhr.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bnhr.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bnhr.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bnhr.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}