Each year, thousands of children show up alone at the US-Mexico border, and each new president tries to find an answer to the obvious yet unresolved question—how do we take care of them? In this episode, we'll explore how immigration policies have tried to protect unaccompanied minors and where the current programs fall short. Joining us is immigration reporter Laura Morel of Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting. She has been on the front lines of exposing the harsh realities of unaccompanied children's experiences, from ice-cold detention facilities to police brutality, while simultaneously working to correct the ways that mainstream media has misrepresented the crisis. We discussed where unaccompanied children go once they reach our border, how facilities care for their mental and physical wellbeing, migrant children's interactions with police, and more. By the end of the episode, you'll understand how our current immigration policies protect and fail to protect children, and you'll learn some human-centered ways that we could change the system for the better.
Listen to the podcast about police interactions with migrant children: https://revealnews.org/podcast/minor-violations/
Read Aura Bogado's article: https://revealnews.org/article/the-disappeared/
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