Six Years Separated
Reveal
The Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX
4.7 • 8K Ratings
🗓️ 15 February 2020
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
An asylum-seeking migrant girl is separated from her family at the border and enters U.S. custody at 10 years old. Now, she’s 17 and still in a shelter, even though her family is ready to take her in. They just can’t find her. They turn to reporter Aura Bogado for help.
We then revisit our 2019 investigation into an immigration judge who rejected nearly every asylum case that came before her. Finally, we follow a transgender woman as she tries to claim asylum
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| 0:00.0 | From the Center for Investigative Reporting in PRX, this is Reveal. |
| 0:09.7 | I'm Al Etten. |
| 0:11.2 | In September, the head of the Office of Refugee Resettlement, Jonathan Hayes, testified |
| 0:15.9 | before Congress on how they were handling unaccompanied minors. |
| 0:19.7 | I believe that a child should not remain an ORR care any longer than the time needed |
| 0:23.7 | to find an appropriate sponsor. |
| 0:25.7 | Hayes said migrant kids were being reunited with their families much more quickly. |
| 0:30.5 | As at the end of August of this year, the average length of time that a child stays in HH's |
| 0:34.1 | custody is approximately 50 days, which is a dramatic decrease of over 40 percent from |
| 0:39.1 | late November 2018, when the average length of care was 90 days. |
| 0:43.9 | What Hayes didn't tell Congress is that some kids are being held much longer. |
| 0:49.0 | Reveal Immigration Reporter Aura Baggato has learned about a girl from Honduras who had |
| 0:53.4 | been in custody for more than 6 years. |
| 0:57.4 | Since she was 10 years old, this girl has spent a big chunk of her childhood being moved |
| 1:01.9 | around from shelter to shelter. |
| 1:04.5 | Aura found out that the girl had family here in the US, a family she wanted to be with, |
| 1:09.2 | and that family wanted to be with her. |
| 1:11.2 | For reasons, we can't figure out, the United States government cut off communication between |
| 1:16.6 | them. |
| 1:17.6 | The last time they were in touch was 5 years ago. |
| 1:20.4 | As Aura was reporting on this case, she found out about an important hearing that was about |
| 1:24.9 | to happen. |
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