Refugee agency accused of helping deport relatives of migrant children

Civil rights advocates said in a letter to US officials that the federal office is using data to ‘arrest and deport’ families

The federal agency tasked with caring for asylum-seeking children separated from their parents at the US-Mexican border has officially taken on a new, little-publicized role in recent months: helping to deport relatives of the young migrants.

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