"They Were Cutting My Hands": Unaccompanied Migrant Children Encounter Problems with Asylum Policy
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A young boy is is helped down from the top of a freight car, as Central Americans board a northbound freight train in Ixtepec, Mexico, Saturday, July 12, 2014. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
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