Thousands of children from Central America continue to make their way to the United States to escape gang violence and deep poverty, at the risk of being kidnapped, trafficked, raped or killed along the way.
In the first half of the year, 26 thousand unaccompanied children were apprehended at the US border, according to the UN's children agency.
Our UN correspondent Liling Tan reports.
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