Here’s how ICE sent children seeking asylum to adult detention centers [revealnews.org]

Alicia Doktor 5/4/184:00 AM

One teen arrived in the United States in 2015 seeking asylum after his father was murdered in Somalia. Another fled Afghanistan last year after the Taliban killed his father and the Islamic State group killed his brother.

But instead of building new lives in the U.S., both ended up in adult detention centers based on the opinion of the same University of Texas dentist – who never met them or examined their teeth.

It’s the latest example of the Department of Homeland Security failing to abide by federal policies, laws and directives from both Congress and internal agency auditors about how to determine the age of unaccompanied immigrant youths, Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting has found.

[For more on this story by Aura Bogado, go to https://www.revealnews.org/blo...t-detention-centers/]

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