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Dear United States Of America, We Are Children: Unaccompanied Immigration Children Under The Obama And Trump Immigration System, Briana Dominguez

CURCE Annual Undergraduate Conference

Dear United States of America: We Are Children is about the way undocumented unaccompanied children are treated by the immigration system in the U.S. I focus on the two different presidential administrations, the Obama and Trump administration. I will started from the Obama administration, fiscal year 2014 and end on the Trump administration, fiscal year of 2018-19. This is important because undocumented children are treated unfairly, they are being thrown from one department to another, denied asylum, deported to their countries that they do not desire to go back, put in cells, and put into the immigration system by themselves. …