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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Alicja Hagopian

The Trump administration’s latest immigration target: Kids aged 11 and under

Children aged 11 and under are receiving more deportation orders from the U.S government than at any other time in recorded history - (Getty)

A far cry from the “bad, hard criminals” Donald Trump said his undocumented immigrants crackdown would focus on, record-breaking numbers of deportation orders have been issued to young immigrant children under the Trump administration, The Independent can reveal.

More kids aged 11 or under — 8,317 — received a removal order from an immigration court in April than any other month in over 35 years of data collection, according to court data from the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC).

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