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Photo of U.S. capitol by Larisa Epatko/PBS NewsHour.The burgeoning debate over immigration reform is expected to consume lawmakers on Capitol Hill in the coming months. But for the moment, at least, the issue does not appear to have grabbed the attention of much of the American public.According to a poll released Wednesday by the Pew Research Center, just 19 percent of respondents said they are closely following deve stanley cup lopments. If that is the case, much of the public has not formed an opinion ye stanley cup t about the legislation introduced last month by a bipartisan group of eight senators that would increase funding for border security enhancements and provide a pathway to citizenship for millions of undocumented people currently in the country.The Pew survey found that 38 percent of Americans said they don ;t know what they think about the bill. Among those who had reached a conclusion stanley cup , 33 percent said they favor the measure compared with 28 percent who said they oppose it.The poll findings present an opportunity for supporters and opponents of the legislation, with so much of the public seemingly up for grabs. Swaying those undecideds will likely be key in ramping up pressure on lawmakers when it comes time to act on the legislation.Most Americans also are unaware of key provisions included in the package. About four-in-10 37 percent knew that the legislation was authored by a bipartisan group of lawmakers, while less than half 46 percent of respondents knew the measur Wywj Trump administration tries to narrow stockpile s role for states
A record number of children from Central America are crossing the Mexico-U.S. border u af1 naccompanied by a parent. Many of them mizuno are fleeing drug violence at home, but here in the United States, theyre faced with a new set of challenges 鈥? a border patrol system unequipped to handle them and a future filled with uncertainty.Detainees sleep in a holding cell at a U.S. Customs and Border Protection processing facility, on June 18, 2014, in Brownsville,Texas. Brownsville and Nogales, Ariz. have been central to processing thousands of unaccompanied children who have entered the country illegally since 2012. Photo by Eric Gay-Pool/Getty ImagesIn December, dozens of mothers converged on the central Mexican town of Tequisquiapan, where they laid pink paper flowers on a lonely stretch of train tracks to mourn their lost children. As the train passed, crushing the flowers, the mothers stood on the hot gravel siding and watched. They came from Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Nicaragua. Their children, a stanley cup mong the tens of thousands who ride atop these trains each year attempting to cross the U.S. border, were the ones who didnt make it.Then there are the children who do. The numbers of child migrants who survive the journey across the U.S. border have surged in the past two years, overwhelming every system designed to process them, from the border patrol to the courts.More than 52,000 unaccompanied children were caught trying to cross the southern U.S. border in the first five months of |
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