Child migrants Articles – Texas Monthly

January 27, 2020

A Year After 7-Year-Old Jakelin Caal Died in U.S. Custody, Everything (And Nothing) Has Changed for Her Family

Few of the promises made to her family and community were kept. And Jakelin’s father has given up on the American Dream.

By Anna-Catherine Brigida

Politics & Policy |

July 24, 2019

Autopsy Offers Jarring New Details About the Death of a 16-Year-Old Guatemalan Boy

Days after he was supposed to be in a children’s shelter, Carlos Gregorio Hernandez Vasquez died of the flu near the toilet in his Border Patrol holding cell.

By Robert Moore