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Girl among Coyotes
PLAINFIELD, NJ — “It was like dying slowly in an eternal agony that lasted five months.” This is how Raquel and Miguel Changobalin describe the experience of not knowing what had happened to their 7-year-old daughter, Marjori, who went missing with the person they had paid to bring her from Ecuador to the United States. This is just one of the hundreds of cases of unaccompanied children who make it to the United States illegally. According to U.S. Border Patrol statistics, during the last year, 7,800 minors were placed in the care of the federal refugee system. Of these, 25 percent were young women and 20 percent were children under 15.
PLAINFIELD, NJ — “It was like dying slowly in an eternal agony that lasted five months.” This is how Raquel and Miguel Changobalin describe the experience of not knowing what had happened to their 7-year-old daughter, Marjori, who went missing with the person they had paid to bring her from Ecuador to the United States. This is just one of the hundreds of cases of unaccompanied children who make it to the United States illegally. According to U.S. Border Patrol statistics, during the last year, 7,800 minors were placed in the care of the federal refugee system. Of these, 25 percent were young women and 20 percent were children under 15.
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