Many of the Central American children who have entered the U.S illegally in recent months have come with a heavy burden — a history of hardship and violence. And many of the children now face difficult and uncertain futures.
This has social service agencies around the country scrambling to figure out how to help the more than 30,000 unaccompanied minors who have been placed with family and friends since January, as they await their immigration hearings.
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[For more of this story, written by Pam Fessler, go to http://nepr.net/news/2014/08/08/trauma-plagues-many-immigrant-kids-in-u-s-illegally/]
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