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Migrant Group Sues Government to Stop 3 Children from Deportation

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   A migrant advocacy group is suing the Trump administration to stop
   threechildren from deportation to El Salvador, where their family says
   their lives would be in danger.

   The three children are in a U.S. facility. Their mother is in a tent
   camp in Mexico,while their father lives in Maryland, outside
   Washington,D.C.,and says he is willing to bring his children into his
   home.

   Lawyers for the Coalition Action Justice Center say the children should
   be considered "unaccompanied" minors anddeserve anasylumhearing.

   The lawyers say the children would be in grave danger
   ifdeported,because their father ran achurchthere and
   preachedagainsttheviolentMS-13 gang.

   The family fled El Salvador for Mexico. The father and afourth
   childentered the U.S. lastJuneandwereallowed tostay.

   Threechildrenand the mother crossed the border into Texas, but a
   judgerejected theirasylumclaim in January andorderedthem back to a camp
   in Mexico.

   After a 16-year-olddaughter barely escaped being raped,and her
   9-year-old brotherwasbeatenandrobbed, their mother sentall
   threechildrenback over the border into Texas.

   Theyare in a U.S. facility, unsure of what willhappennext.

   If theyare granted asylum, it is unclear if or whentheir mother would
   be allowed to leave the camp and jointhefamily.

   U.S.officialshave not commented on the case.

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