1 hrs 37 mins | SOCIAL SCIENCE | DemographyIn this rare account from within ICE detention facilities, fourteen children are followed from their arrest by U.S. Border Patrol to the day they exit facilities for unaccompanied minors. Preschoolers and teenagers, the kids offer a range of evocative backstories: a deaf and mute fifteen-year-old Mayan girl; a teen from India who has walked three thousand miles; a Guatemalan girl who has escaped domestic slavery and is on the run with her young siblings. Each child offers an account of their chaotic journey from Guatemala, India, Honduras or Mexico, and the situation that drove them to enter t...
In this rare account from within ICE detention facilities, fourteen children are followed from their arrest by U.S. Border Patrol to the day they exit facilities for unaccompanied minors. Preschoolers and teenagers, the kids offer a range of evocative backstories: a deaf and mute fifteen-year-old Mayan girl; a teen from India who has walked three thousand miles; a Guatemalan girl who has escaped domestic slavery and is on the run with her young siblings. Each child offers an account of their chaotic journey from Guatemala, India, Honduras or Mexico, and the situation that drove them to enter the U.S. illegally. We get an intimate view of their long, difficult quest for release to U.S. relatives and a rare, first-hand view of daily life within U.S detention shelters.
The author, a therapist within a major children's detention facility, offers a vivid, and often surprising, first-hand description of daily life within our immigration shelters; the complicated, often heroic efforts of shelter workers; and the processes and politics that decide if a child is deported or allowed to join family. In the epilogue, the author explains that due to Homeland Security restrictions, sharing information about the internal workings of migrant shelters forfeits any future employment. The author believes this to be the principal reason there are no other published accounts from within facilities for unaccompanied minors.
| # | Title | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | 001 Shelter - Opening Credits |
0 mins 17 secs |
| 2. | 002 Disclaimer |
0 mins 20 secs |
| 3. | 003 Chapter 1 |
20 mins 56 secs |
| 4. | 004 Chapter 2 |
6 mins 59 secs |
| 5. | 005 Chapter 3 |
9 mins 39 secs |
| 6. | 006 Chapter 4 |
11 mins 12 secs |
| 7. | 007 Chapter 5 |
4 mins 50 secs |
| 8. | 008 Chapter 6 |
5 mins 14 secs |
| 9. | 009 Chapter 7 |
5 mins 57 secs |
| 10. | 010 Chapter 8 |
7 mins 11 secs |
| 11. | 011 Chapter 9 |
5 mins 07 secs |
| 12. | 012 Chapter 10 |
4 mins 56 secs |
| 13. | 013 Chapter 11 |
4 mins 12 secs |
| 14. | 014 Chapter 12 |
4 mins 35 secs |
| 15. | 015 Credits |
0 mins 38 secs |
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