Immigrant girl, 3, suffered alleged sexual abuse in federal custody, family says
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“For five months, the young father waited for his three-year-old daughter’s release from federal custody after she crossed the US-Mexico border with her mother”
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“the girl had suffered alleged sexual abuse at the foster home where she’d been placed after immigration officials separated her from her mother”
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“Donald Trump’s presidential administration began targeting detained immigrant children [...] when it implemented new rules and procedures in 2025, which were immediately followed by a dramatic jump in detention times”
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— This is a list of United States ambassadors appointed by the 47th president of the United States, Donald Trump, during his second term in office.
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— The inauguration of Donald Trump as the 47th president of the United States took place on Monday, January 20, 2025. Due to freezing temperatures and high winds, it was held inside the U.S. Capitol ro…
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— Donald Trump's second and current tenure as the president of the United States began upon his inauguration as the 47th president on January 20, 2025. Trump, a Republican, previously served as the 45th…
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“the federal government intensified efforts to expand family detention indefinitely by motioning to terminate a cornerstone policy ensuring the protection of immigrant children in federal custody”
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“the government told him it couldn’t make an appointment to take his fingerprints”
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“the girl said she was sexually abused by an older child staying with her in foster care in Harlingen, Texas”
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“the older child accused of the abuse was removed from that foster program”
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“the abuse allegations were reported to local law enforcement”
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“the ORR and its parent agency, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), were named in the child’s lawsuit”
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— Hannibal High School is a public high school located in Hannibal, Missouri. HHS serves grades 9 through 12 and is the only high school in Hannibal School District #60.
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— Edward Scott Lloyd (born August 22, 1979) is an American lawyer who served as the director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR). He ran the ORR during the period when it oversaw the detention o…
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— The United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is a cabinet-level executive branch department of the US federal government created to set guidelines for the private healthcare system …
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“the girl and her mother illegally crossed the border near El Paso on 16 September”
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— El Paso (English: ; Spanish: [el ˈpaso] , lit. 'the route' or 'the pass') is a city in and the county seat of El Paso County, Texas, United States. It is the 22nd-most populous city in the U.S., sixt…
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— El Paso International Airport (EPIA, (IATA: ELP, ICAO: KELP, FAA LID: ELP), Spanish: Aeropuerto Internacional de El Paso) is an international airport located four miles (6 km) northeast of downtown El…
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— El Paso–Juárez, also known as Juárez–El Paso, the Borderplex or Paso del Norte, is a transborder agglomeration, on the border between Mexico and the United States. The region is centered on two large …
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“average custody times for children cared for by the ORR grew from 37 days when Trump took office for his second presidency in January 2025 to almost 200 days this February”
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“the ORR released the girl to her father two days after the habeas petition was filed in federal court”
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“the fingerprinting policy was challenged during the first Trump administration by legal advocates including the National Center for Youth Law”
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“the girl underwent a forensic exam and interview”
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