Friday, June 29, 2018

The Immigrant Children’s Shelters Near You


We found 99 facilities holding immigrant children and have mapped 78 of them. Help us find out more about the facilities and the children being held there.

by  Decca Muldowney, Alex Mierjeski, Claire Perlman, Lilia Chang, Ken Schwencke, Adriana Gallardo and Derek Kravitz

Under President Trump’s new “zero tolerance” immigration policy 2,047 children remain separated from their parents, as of June 26. They are now held in shelters and foster homes run by the federal government and an assortment of nonprofit groups. These shelters were already home to an additional 8,886 children who crossed the border unaccompanied by older relatives before the “zero tolerance” policy was announced.

ProPublica is working with partners in the U.S. and in Latin America to fill in gaps in what we know about these facilities, and to tell the stories of the people affected by the zero tolerance policy. More about the map | Español

Use this map to find the facilities nearest you and to help us find out more about them.

Click here to access the map.

Source: ProPublica

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