Seeking Protection, Enduring Persecution: The Treatment and Abuse of Unaccompanied Undocumented Children in Short-Term Immigration Detention

Each year over 100,000 undocumented children will attempt the dangerous journey to the United States through the U.S-Mexico border in hopes of receiving asylum and escaping poverty, violence and lack of education in their home countries. Once in the United States they face the added obstacle of being undocumented and therefore subject to mistreatment by Border Patrol (BP), inhumane stays in detention facilities and adversarial immigration proceedings. (Description from source.)