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Homeland Security’s civil rights unit lacks power to stop abuse of migrant kids

The children’s lawyer was incensed. Her two tiny clients — one of them blind — had been in a shelter for three months, separated from their mother.  The family had traveled from Mexico to the United States, reaching Nogales, Arizona, on March 1, 2018. Officials at the border found the mother, Nadia Pulido, had “credible” […]

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