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This Seattle boy was just six when he was asked to protect an undocumented family

Justice

What it’s like for kids to understand that some of their friends live in the US “without papers”? A Seattle boy named Ronan found out when his best friend told him that he was in the United States without legal status.

Border fence at Friendship Park, Tijuana

Without lawyers, 90% of children crossing into the US alone seeking safety could be sent back

Justice
Sruti Swaminathan, 22, is the daughter of Indian immigrants. She told photographer Quetzal Maucci that while growing up in the US, she was embarrassed to bring Indian food to school for lunch.

This young photographer brings the stories of immigrant children to light

Culture
Graffiti of the letters "MS", which stand for the street gang Mara Salvatrucha, photographed in San Salvador on April 22, 2014. Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) and Calle 18 are rival gangs that started in Los Angeles but now have a heavy presence in El Salvador.

Gang violence awaits a teen from El Salvador after his failed attempts to reach the US

Conflict
Shelter

How one young boy fleeing violence in Central America faced danger at a US detention facility

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Salvadoran children at an after school violence prevention program created with money from USAID.

Migrants are being deported back to Central America, but their home countries aren’t ready for them

Global Politics

Governments in Central American countries like El Salvador anticipate a big flood of migrants returning from the United States after being detained. But those migrants are coming back to the same depressed, and sometimes violent, conditions that forced them to leave in the first place.

More and more migrants are being tried as criminals in American courts

Justice

“Operation Streamline” is the federal government’s program to fast-track immigration cases. It’s certainly made it easier to prosecute migrants — or put them in jail. But critics say everything else about the program seems confused.

A woman sells banana leaves at a market in Managua, Nicaragua.

Tens of thousands of Central American children are fleeing their homes — except in Nicaragua

Justice

Over the past year, the US Border Patrol has apprehended tens of thousands of Central American children crossing the US-Mexico border alone. So why are kids from Nicaragua, the region’s poorest country, staying at home?

A woman sells banana leaves at a market in Managua, Nicaragua.

Tens of thousands of Central American children are fleeing their homes — except in Nicaragua

Justice

Over the past year, the US Border Patrol has apprehended tens of thousands of Central American children crossing the US-Mexico border alone. So why are kids from Nicaragua, the region’s poorest country, staying at home?

Immigrants who have been caught crossing the border illegally are housed inside the Border Patrol Station in McAllen, Texas where they are processed. More than 57,000 unaccompanied children have been apprehended at the southwestern border since October, m

Conditions for migrants at a detention center in Texas are bleak and overcrowded

Justice

The World’s Jason Margolis got a rare tour of the detention facilities in McAllen, Texas, that houses unaccompanied migrant children and families from Central America. There’s been a recent surge of such migrants this year, stretching the border’s immigration centers to the limit.The World’s Jason Margolis got a rare tour of the detention facilities in McAllen, Texas, that houses unaccompanied migrant children and families from Central America. There’s been a recent surge of such migrants this year, stretching the border’s immigration centers to the limit.