It was midnight when the calls to ProBAR staff began. Guatemalan children were being pulled from their beds in shelters across the state, rushed onto buses, and driven under the cover of darkness to a small border town airport in Harlingen, Texas. Deep into the Labor Day weekend, the U.S. government had launched a new effort to expeditiously return immigrant children—alone and terrified—back to Guatemala.
News & Updates
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On August 1, 2025, ProBAR formally expanded its service area to include Corpus Christi, Texas. ProBAR now provides legal orientation, representation, and connection to services for unaccompanied immigrant children in five youth shelters and long-term foster care facilities in the region.
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Earlier this year, ProBAR attorneys learned that a number of their recent unaccompanied children clients were scheduled for asylum interviews. The two clients, a girl from Honduras and a boy from Egypt who both arrived unaccompanied to the U.S. in 2024, were not expected to have their interviews for at least a year.
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We are pleased to release our Winter Bulletin covering ProBAR’s final quarter of 2024. Learn more about how we are navigating our
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In 2006, Erick and Brisely were young teenagers who arrived separately as unaccompanied children at an Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) shelter in South Texas, fleeing dangerous situations in their home countries.