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Abandoned Teen Plans Army Career
Although he is only 19, Miguel Hernandez Ford has planned out his future. In it, he has something he has never known: a real family. Mr. Hernandez Ford’s mother abandoned Honduras for the United...
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He Knows How Bad It Can Get: Former Undocumented Minor Reaches Out to Others
By Alice Kenny Photo credit: Naperville Sun – Elvis Garcia (L) as forward for Naperville North High School, Naperville, Illinois. Fifteen years old, hungry and alone, Elvis Garcia hitched rides,...
View ArticleA Refugee Crisis, Not an Immigration Crisis
#173959525 / gettyimages.com 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 of Honduras soon — “no...
View ArticleBullet in His Calf, Carlos Barely Made It
#452691852 / gettyimages.com By Alexandra Starr New York Magazine Carlos, a soon-to-be-19-year-old from Honduras, is most fond of pastimes and people who bring on temporary amnesia. His former...
View ArticleKids Facing Deportation to Get Extra Help from NYC
#451654796 / gettyimages.com By Michael Gartland New York Post Mayor de Blasio announced Tuesday that he is dispatching health and school workers to immigration court to help children facing...
View ArticleA Day on a New York City “Rocket Docket”
#455037686 / gettyimages.com “The minors and their guardians sit in the fluorescent-lit room and stare at the sketch on the whiteboard,” reports the Latin America News Dispatch. The image represents a...
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