Teen says he was questioned about his age, separated from parents at the border

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https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/teen-says-was-questioned-age-separated-parents-border-rcna8852

McALLEN, Texas — A teen from Nicaragua said he was "terrified" after being separated from his parents for several weeks after the family said border authorities questioned his birth certificate and whether he was under 18.

“I felt terrified of being alone, in another country, without a mother and without a father. When we came here I didn’t think I was going to go through this,” the 16-year-old told Noticias Telemundo Investiga.

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The teen's family and attorney said he was separated from his parents at the border and processed as an adult, where he was locked up in two Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention centers for several weeks. In one of them, Pine Prairie Processing Center, in Louisiana, the teen said he spent 18 days in a solitary cell, without seeing sunlight and without social interaction.

By law, Border Patrol processes parents and their children together. If there are unaccompanied minors, they must be sent to a shelter system of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and not to prisons contracted by ICE.

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1. This is horrendous...

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2. It seems to me that...

The contractors and the BP are not on our side and may be sabotaging the process to keep it from being fixed to function as it should. Too many BC officers are racists and perverts. I lived along the border many times and it has always been that way.