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Slipping through the cracks : unaccompanied children detained by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service.

Title: Slipping through the cracks : unaccompanied children detained by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service.
Author: Ehrenreich, Rosa, 1970-
Publication: New York : Human Rights Watch, c1997.

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Human Rights Watch Children's Rights Project

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119 p.; 23 cm.

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"This report was written by Rosa Ehrenreich and edited by Lee Tucker, Lois Whitman and Cynthia Brown"--Acknowledgments.
The U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) violates the rights of hundreds of unaccompanied children each year, some as young as eight, contrary to international law as well as INS regulations and policies. Based on on-site visits and interviews conducted at INS facilities in Los Angeles County and Arizona, our report reveals that children are held in prison-like conditions for several months or longer. The INS detain too many children for too long, fails to inform them of their legal rights, interferes with their efforts to obtain legal representation or to consult in private with their lawyers, and fails to facilitate contact with family members. Moreover, the INS fails to keep statistics on or to make public the actions it takes against thousands of unaccompanied children whom it holds in custody for seventy-two hours or less.

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1564322092

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^^^97071371^

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