Immigrant children left at border: Woman with long, dark hair in red top sits at table crying with hands folded on table.

Watchdog: US Forced Deported Parents to Leave Kids Behind

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WASHINGTON (AP) — A government watchdog says the Trump administration, under its practice of separating families at the border, forced migrant parents to leave the U.S. without their children, contradicting claims by officials that parents were willingly leaving them behind. 

Mexico border kids in cages: Lone child stands wit teddy bear holding onto chainlink fence.

Number of Kids Alone At Border Hits All-time High In March

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The U.S. government picked up nearly 19,000 children traveling alone across the Mexican border in March, authorities said Thursday, the largest monthly number ever recorded and a major test for President Joe Biden as he reverses many of his predecessor's hardline immigration tactics.