The Feds Are Locking Up Immigrant Kids—Who Have Committed No Crimes—In Juvie - Mother Jones

Shortly after reaching the United States and turning himself over to Border Patrol, Alonzo, a 16-year-old immigrant from El Salvador, was invited to speak with a psychologist at the Bristow, Virginia, shelter where he was detained. She asked him to talk about his life back home, and he told her how his brother had been involved in a gang and was wanted for murder. His parents had urged Alonzo to flee his home country because they worried he’d fall prey to the same gang. ....
https://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2018/07/immigrant-kids-are-being-sent-to-violent-juvenile-halls-without-a-trial/