Alison Kamhi, a Skadden fellow working with Catholic Charities, was making her rounds in November 2009 at a transitional residence for unaccompanied alien children when she encountered a polite, timid 17-year-old who told her that he had fled unremitting abuse by his father in Mexico for an uncertain life of wandering from farm to farm in the United States.
The harrowing account by Daniel T.H.—as he is called in court papers—highlights the plight of the thousands of abused illegal immigrant children who enter the United States alone each year.
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