The desperate sobbing of 10 Central American children, separated from their parents one day last week by immigration authorities at the border, makes for excruciating listening.
Federal authorities allowed a small group of reporters to tour the secretive shelter used to hold immigrant children in Brownsville, Texas, the largest of its kind in the nation.
Texas may soon be the site of tent cities that will house immigrant children separated from their parents as a result of the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" policy.
Youths who arrive in the country unaccompanied often lack official documents such as birth certificates, and immigration authorities are legally required to make a determination on age within a few ...
In literature, as in life, the belief that children are valuable, vulnerable and in need of protection has mostly been denied to black children in the United States.