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Photo story: Detained Children
Comments 0 | Recommend 0Every month, thousands of undocumented teenagers are caught trying to cross into the United States. The teens travel by plane, bus and sometimes foot, thousands of miles - often on their own - to try to reach the United States.
After they are caught, many are sent to Mexican-run shelters along the border, staying there until they can be sent back to their families, many of them in southern Mexico.
From January through August of 2007, Mexican officials repatriated more than 20,000 teenagers, according to the National Institute of Migration. The majority of them were seeking jobs in the United States.
Ryan A. Ruiz of Cronkite News Service tells the stories of some of these teenagers in these photographs.
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EDITOR'S NOTE: This story is part of "Divided Families," an
in-depth reporting project by advanced students in Arizona State
University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass
Communication, supported by a grant from the Howard G. Buffett
Foundation.
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