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Advocates seek to halt CBP policy pressuring unaccompanied children to self-deport

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McALLEN, Texas — Legal advocates filed a motion Tuesday seeking to stop U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents from urging immigrant children entering the country without their parents to voluntarily deport themselves under a federal policy introduced last year. Border agents who arrest unaccompanied immigrant children who enter the country illegally are required by the … Read more