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The racial dynamics between American women are flipped in a disorienting photo series

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Here’s What Happened to the 99 Immigrant Children Separated From Their Parents and Sent to Chicago

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Confidential records reveal details about struggles to find parents and traumatic experiences during the Trump administration’s zero-tolerance crackdown. by  Jodi S. Cohen ,  Melissa Sanchez  and  Duaa Eldeib   Sept. 10, 5 a.m. CDT They were as young as 10 months, as old as almost 18. About one-third of the children who ended up in Chicago came from Guatemala. Others had fled Brazil, Honduras, El Salvador, Belize, Romania and India. All had at least one parent locked up, often hundreds of miles away. Months after the plight of children separated from their parents under the Trump administration’s zero-tolerance immigration crackdown sparked outrage, prompting a reversal of the policy, those children’s identities and experiences in detention remain largely unknown. But ProPublica Illinois has obtained confidential records about the 99 children sent to Illinois shelters run by the nonprofit Heartland Human Care Services, which has a federal contract to house immigrant