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For Immigrant Children Crossing Border, Fears Meet Court Backlog

NPR
Published July 14, 2014 at 5:27 PM EDT

Audie Cornish talks with Michelle Abarca, a supervising attorney with the Americans for Immigrant Justice, on how the surge in unaccompanied children has impacted her organization. Abarca also recommends ways of coping with the influx.

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