An Adolescence, Seized

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4.7 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

A 10-year-old Honduran girl came to the United States seeking asylum. Instead, she was detained – away from her family – for nearly seven years. Reporter Aura Bogado follows her story. After a lawsuit against the U.S. government, we discover that tens of thousands of children have been held in custody for months, instead of days. And nearly 1,000 have spent more than a year in shelters.

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0:00.0	From the Center for Investigative Reporting in PRX, this is Reveal.
0:09.4	I'm Al Letton.
0:10.4	I'm Record. This is immigration judge Ricki-Jaffa Nierf,
0:12.8	residing in Portland, Oregon on 16 January 2020.
0:16.0	It's the start of the year before the pandemic shut everything down.
0:20.3	And Reveal reporter, Outta Boggato, is in an immigration courtroom.
0:24.8	Yeah, so I was there for this hearing in a big federal building
0:28.8	in the middle of downtown Portland.
0:31.1	There's a department of justice seal on the wall behind the judge
0:35.0	and wood paneling on the walls about a dozen kids are listening.
0:40.2	The fate of these kids could be decided today.
0:43.3	Outta has been following the case of one of them for months,
0:47.2	a 17-year-old girl from Honduras.
0:50.0	I recognize a girl right away. As soon as she walks in,
0:53.1	she has black pants and this really pretty cream-colored top
0:56.7	with like flared sleeves on the arms.
0:58.9	Her hair is pulled back in a ponytail and she has a whole bunch of pink berets on,
1:03.6	which I don't know if it was like hard serve or bears or something.
1:07.2	In some respects, she's a typical teenager,
1:10.5	but she's facing a life-altering situation.
1:13.7	She seems nervous. She's constantly fidgeting and looking around.
1:18.0	We're not going to use her name because she's a minor and she's experienced
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